斩获59份Offer！美国学霸四胞胎兄弟拒绝哈佛 最终选择耶鲁大学

 　　They share the same name, the same parents and the same love of American Football and other sports.

　　Now the Wade¹ quadruplets of Ohio, are set to study together at the same college after getting offers from dozens of institutions across the country,

　　The brothers from Liberty² Township, near Cincinnati, were all accepted for Harvard and Yale. After a lot of thought, they decided³ they would continue to stick together by all taking the offer from Yale.

　　NBC News said it had been an easy decision for 18-year-old Nick, Zach and Nigel Wade. “The school treated us like family,” Nigel said the night the deadline for deciding which college to attend.

　　But Aaron Wade, who was also accepted to Stanford University, was reportedly much less certain - especially after he visited Stanford’s campus⁴ in California.

　　“There was a part of me that didn’t want to like the school because it would make my decision easy,” he said. “Alas, that didn’t happen. I loved it as well.”

　　He added: “But at the end of the day, Yale made sense logistically, and it’s an amazing school. I don’t regret my decision even though right now it kind of feels like a sacrifice.”

　　The news channel said the four brothers decided on Yale after receiving an “extraordinary” financial aid package, which no other college could beat.

　　Their father Darrin Wade, a senior staff software architect for General Electric, said: “Yale won."

1 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

2 liberty   

n.自由，自由权；冒昧行为

参考例句：

• He stood for the cause of liberty and justice.他为自由和正义的事业而奋斗。
• You are at liberty to do as you please.你可以随意行事。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。