I'm confident that's the case because admission is competitive and if there weren't some signs that you're clever, the dean of admission wouldn't have let you in.

之所以如此确信，是因为入学竞争十分激烈，如果你们不能表现出聪明智慧，便没有资格进入这所学校。

Facing the eager 18-year-old, NYU's dean of admissions declared: " A girl who makes these kinds of grades doesn't need an application to enroll."

面对这位渴望的18岁女孩，纽约大学招生主任宣称：“取得这样成绩的女孩不需要申请入学。”

I’m confident that’s the case because admission is competitive and if there weren’t some signs that you’re clever, the dean of admission wouldn’t have let you in.

我相信情况确实如此， 因为录取竞争激烈，如果没有一些迹象表明你很聪明， 录取主任不会让你入学。

Three years later, in 1967, I found myself sitting in the headmaster's office one day in the fall of my senior year with a man named R. Inslee Clark Jr., the dean of admissions at Yale.

三年后，也就是1967年，我大四那年秋天，我坐在了校长办公室里，办公室里还有一个叫小R.英思利·克拉克的人，他是耶鲁大学的招生主任。