又是一個勵志的故事。

這幾天，一名哈佛大學新生在推特上的留言爆紅網(wǎng)絡。

圖 via Amado Candelario

這個名叫阿瑪多·坎德拉里奧（Amado Candelario）的男孩從小和他的兩個姐妹，以及他們的母親生活在芝加哥。他們的母親是墨西哥移民，收入微薄。

盡管家庭條件如此貧困，卻未曾動搖坎德拉里奧從小就立志考入哈佛大學深造的決心。

Candelario, who grew up with his immigrant mother from Mexico and two sisters in West Lawn, Chicago, had been dreaming of attending Harvard — which accepted 4.5 percent of applicants in 2019 — since he was in sixth grade.

坎德拉里奧的母親是墨西哥移民，他和母親以及兩姐妹一起在芝加哥的West Lawn長大�？驳吕�里奧從六年級開始就夢想上哈佛大學。2019年，哈佛大學的錄取率是4.5%。

“The only thing people ever talked about when you mentioned was how good it was and how it was the best post-secondary education you could get,” Candelario told NBC News. “I grew up in a lot of poverty and violence and I wanted something better for myself.”

“當你提到它（哈佛大學）的時候，人們談論的唯一一件事就是它有多好，它是你能得到的最好的高等教育，”坎德拉里奧在接受NBC采訪時說道。“我在貧困和暴力的環(huán)境中長大，我想讓自己過得更好。”

▲A young Latino dreamed of going to Harvard. He's there and his tweet has gone viral. (via NBC News)

經(jīng)過多年不懈地努力，坎德拉里奧終于實現(xiàn)了他兒時的夢想，進入了他從小夢寐以求的高等學府哈佛大學，并在推特上驕傲地寫下一段文字，而他也因這段文字爆紅網(wǎng)絡。

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“I’m the only kid at Harvard right now, class of 2023, that’s from Chicago and didn’t go to a selective enrollment school, a private school, a predominately affluent suburban school,” Amado Candelario wrote in a tweet that received more than 86,000 likes as of Friday afternoon. “I’m the only Chicago neighborhood school kid. It’s sad but I DID THAT and I’m proud of myself!!”

“我現(xiàn)在是哈佛2023屆學生中唯一一個來自芝加哥，沒有上過精英學校，沒上過私立學校，或是富裕的郊區(qū)學校的學生，”阿瑪多·坎德拉里奧在推特上寫道。截至周五下午，這條推特收到了逾8.6萬個贊。“我是唯一一個來自芝加哥社區(qū)學校的孩子。我很難過，但我做到了，我為自己感到驕傲!!”

▲A young Latino dreamed of going to Harvard. He's there and his tweet has gone viral. (via NBC News)

最新的調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)表明，哈佛錄取的白人學生中有很大一部分來自享有“名校世襲制”等優(yōu)先權(quán)的學生。

A new study notes that in the six admissions cycles between 2014 and 2019, 43% of white students admitted to Harvard were either legacies, recruited athletes, children of faculty and staff, or students on the Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018. By contrast, no more than 16% of admitted students who were African-American, Asian-American, or Hispanic fell into one of those favored categories.

一項新的研究指出，在2014年到2019年間的六個招生周期中，哈佛錄取的白人學生中有43%的學生不是傳承錄取或特招運動員，就是教職工子女或“院長關注名單”上的學生。“院長關注名單”是指親屬向哈佛大學捐款的申請人名單，這在2018年才為公眾所知。相比之下，哈佛錄取的非裔、亞裔或西班牙裔美國人中，只有不到16%的學生屬于這些受歡迎的類別之一。

▲A new statistic reveals the startling privilege of white kids admitted to Harvard (via qz.com)

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對那些同樣來自邊緣家庭但又想通過努力擺脫困境的孩子來說，坎德拉里奧給出的建議是，他們必須懷有遠大的理想，并且要“昭告天下”。

“I feel like for kids who come from marginalized backgrounds, being realistic can limit them," Candelario said. "I feel like you have to dream big and tell your intentions to the world. All of high school, even as a freshman, I told people I wanted to go to Harvard. I put it in my Instagram bio, even though I wasn’t accepted. There’s something powerful about manifesting and verbalizing what you want and telling yourself you are capable of that.”

“我覺得對于那些來自邊緣化家庭背景的孩子來說，他們（對生活的態(tài)度）太現(xiàn)實的話會限制了他們，”坎德拉里奧說道。“我覺得你必須懷有遠大的夢想，把你的意圖告訴全世界。整個高中，甚至作為大一新生，我都告訴別人我想讀哈佛。盡管我當時還沒有被錄取，我還是把這個想法寫在了我的Instagram個人簡介里。把你想要的東西表現(xiàn)和表達出來，用語言告訴你自己，你有能力做到，這就產(chǎn)生了強大的力量。”

▲A young Latino dreamed of going to Harvard. He's there and his tweet has gone viral. (via NBC News)

進入哈佛后，坎德拉里奧下一步將要考慮的是如何應付哈佛大學高昂的學費。

Candelario said he started thinking about college early because he knew that he needed to figure out a way to pay for the hefty price tag of a college education. The total 2018-2019 cost of attending Harvard University without financial aid is $67,580 for tuition, room, board and fees combined, according to the school.

坎德拉里奧說，他很早就開始考慮上大學的事，因為他知道自己需要想辦法支付大學教育的高昂學費。2018年至2019學年，在沒有助學金的情況下就讀哈佛大學，所需的學費、食宿費和其他費用加起來總計為67580美元。

“I needed to figure out how to provide for myself and how I could give back to my mom and to my family that has done so much for me, and college seemed like the way to do that,” he said.

坎德拉里奧說：“我需要想辦法養(yǎng)活自己，想辦法回報為我付出了這么多的母親和家人，而上大學似乎就是一個辦法。”

▲A young Latino dreamed of going to Harvard. He's there and his tweet has gone viral. (via NBC News)

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