主持人：最近看到一组数据关于中国学生参加高考的人数逐年下降，但是参加美国高考也的人逐年上升，在这个留学热潮中也存在很多的问题，比如说低龄留学，还有一些盲目择校，就业困难等，校长认为这些问题当中您觉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（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：我认为对于一个学生而言，要规划好如何在外国的大学里度过整整四年的本科时光是一件非常具有挑战性的事情。在我本科阶段，我从美国去到法国游学了一年，这个游学经历对我产生了很大影响。但是如果让我整整四年的学习都在美国之外的大学进行，那么我也会非常紧张和担忧，因为很难获得一些用于确定一个外国大学是否优秀的信息。现在因为网络技术的发展，要获得这些信息已经变得容易很多，但是从网络上获得的这些信息并不是绝对可靠的。因此，对于中国学生而言，现在最大的一个难题就是如何才能获得有关外国大学的准确可靠的信息。对于在中国长大的中国学生要获得有关中国大学的信息相对是比较容易的。因此我建议那些准备送孩子出国留学的家长们，需要花尽可能多的时间，从尽可能多的渠道了解相关信息，对各面获得的信息加以综合考虑，这样才更能确定自己能把孩子送到一个高质量的优秀学校。

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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