不拘一格降人才？清华留学生招生惹争议
THE COUNTRY'S PRESTIGIOUS TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY has come under fire for its 2017 international undergraduate admission requirements, which many have criticized as being "preferential" because they only require foreign applicants under the age of 25 to have a high-school diploma and pass the Level 5 of the HSK language test. Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, commented:
中国顶尖学府清华大学在出台了《2017国际学生(本科)招生简章》后引发轩然大波。很多人认为这项政策是对国际学生的偏袒，因为任何未满25周岁、拥有高中学历并通过了HSK(汉语水平考试)五级的国外学生均可就读清华大学。21世纪教育研究学院副院长熊丙奇作出如下评论：
That Tsinghua University eased its requirements for the admission of foreign applicants has sparked continuing controversy online.
清华大学降低国际学生入学申请难度的做法在网上引发了持续热议。
Although the university has confirmed that the threshold for international students has not been lowered, and it has promised to offer admission to about 3,300 undergraduates from the Chinese mainland this year, it has refrained from responding to rising concerns about the admission loophole.
尽管清华大学已澄清并未降低国际学生的入学门槛，并承诺今年将给国内学生提供3300个本科入学名额，但却拒绝就大家日渐关心的“招生漏洞”问题作出回复。
Leading universities across the world normally set fairly high thresholds for overseas applicants because they are highly sought after. Aside from basic qualifications such as outstanding IELTS and TOEFL scores, they attach great importance to applicants' past academic performance and many other nonacademic qualities. For international students, their chances of being admitted by Harvard University are often around 4 percent.
国外世界一流学府因申请人数众多，故对海外申请者都设立了严格的录取制度。除了要求学生在雅思或托福考试中获得优异成绩外，还格外重视申请者以往的学术成就和其他非学术领域的能力。国际学生被哈佛大学成功录取的概率大约是4%。
Despite its jump in academic ranking and it now being on the list of the world's top 100 universities, Tsinghua has a long way to go to attract more meritorious overseas talents. But it should not pursue the goal by lowering its admission requirements for international students.
尽管清华大学在学术领域的排名有显著提升并在世界大学排行榜中位列全球前100名，但在吸引更多优秀海外人才上还有很长一段路要走。但无论如何，它都不应以降低国际学生入学门槛的做法来实现这一目标。
In particular, stricter scrutiny is called for to keep at bay those applicants who manage to acquire foreign citizenship yet fail to provide evidence of their academic competence.
而针对“拥有外国国籍但在学术能力上缺乏证明”的这部分申请者，如何设立更严格的审核制度的这一问题也应引起清华方面的格外重视。
