主持人：最近看到一組數據關于中國學生參加高考的人數逐年下降，但是參加美國高考也的人逐年上升，在這個留學熱潮中也存在很多的問題，比如說低齡留學，還有一些盲目擇校，就業困難等，校長認為這些問題當中您覺得目前最突出的是什么？

Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: Recently, we notified some statistics showed that the number of students who took Chinese College Entrance Exam （Gao Kao） is decreasing, and the Chinese students who took American Gao Kao, like SAT, is increasing year by year. But there are many problems caused by the upsurge of the abroad study. For instance, the Chinese students who go abroad become younger and younger, and they don’t know how to choose a college, and the existed difficulties in the job-hunting process after graduation. In your opinion, which of the above problems is the most serious one?

Jeffrey. Lehman（上海紐約大學常務副校長）：我認為對于一個學生而言，要規劃好如何在外國的大學里度過整整四年的本科時光是一件非常具有挑戰性的事情。在我本科階段，我從美國去到法國游學了一年，這個游學經歷對我產生了很大影響。但是如果讓我整整四年的學習都在美國之外的大學進行，那么我也會非常緊張和擔憂，因為很難獲得一些用于確定一個外國大學是否優秀的信息。現在因為網絡技術的發展，要獲得這些信息已經變得容易很多，但是從網絡上獲得的這些信息并不是絕對可靠的。因此，對于中國學生而言，現在最大的一個難題就是如何才能獲得有關外國大學的準確可靠的信息。對于在中國長大的中國學生要獲得有關中國大學的信息相對是比較容易的。因此我建議那些準備送孩子出國留學的家長們，需要花盡可能多的時間，從盡可能多的渠道了解相關信息，對各面獲得的信息加以綜合考慮，這樣才更能確定自己能把孩子送到一個高質量的優秀學校。

Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：I think it’s very very challenging to plan to spend one’s entire education as an undergraduate student at foreign university. When I was in college, I spend one year studying outside United States in France and that made a very big difference to me. But I was nervous about the idea of spending all four years outside United States because it’s very hard to get good information about what is really a good school and what might not be a good school from half way on the world. It’s easier to get that kind of information now because of the internet, but the information initially get from the internet is not always reliable. So the hardest problem now is for students of China to be able to get good and reliable information about universities outside China. It’s much easier to get good information about universities inside China if you grow up in China. So my advice to parents when they are thinking about sending their children to study far away is to take a lot of time talk to a lot of people, do not just rely on one or two sources of information, because sometimes those source of information might not be balanced or they might not be well informed. Talk to lots of and lots of people, ten people, twenty people, thirty people, all of whom have real knowledge about places overseas, so that you have confidence that your child is going to a good and high quality institution.

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