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搜狐出国主持人：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？
SOHU 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.
搜狐出国主持人：非常谢谢雷蒙校长接受我们今天的专访，也非常期待雷蒙校长的新书，以及在上海纽约大学的开学演讲，谢谢几位！
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: Thank you very much for taking this interview and we are also expecting your new book and also your speech in the opening ceremony of NYU Shanghai.
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：参加今天的专访我感到非常荣幸。我想对当今所有学生们说：我非常羡慕你们，因为你们所处的这个时代是人类文明史上最振奋人心的时刻，在当代，来自世界各地的人们正在一起工作以共同解决世界难题，以把世界造就得更加美好。当我还是学生的时候，大家都生活在各自的国家里，没有办法像现在一样和来自世界各地的人一起工作。借此机会，我真诚地祝愿大家能创造出属于自己和属于世界的精彩，谢谢！
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：It is an honor to me to have the opportunity to speak to you. All of you, students today, I envy you, because you are entering a world at a time that is the most exciting moment in the history of human civilization, this is a time where people from all around the world are working together to solve the world’s problems and make the world a better place for everyone. When I was growing up a long time ago, people lived in their own countries, they didn’t work together in a way they can today, they can work today because of the technology, they can work together because of the transportation, they can work together because the world is becoming more prosperous and more fair. I want to offer all of you my best wishes as you are entering in such exciting period in your own lives and entering in such exciting period for the whole world. Thank you very much.
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