But our cultural obsession with a limited group of highly rejective colleges has major consequences.

但我们的文化是迷恋一小部分高拒绝性大学，这现象带来重大的后果。

Regional public universities, or RPUs for short, are the exact opposite of highly rejective colleges.

区域性公立大学，简称 RPU，它们和高拒绝性大学恰恰相反。

And RPU students often don't have the test scores required to get into a highly rejective college.

而且区域性公立大学学生通常达不到进入那些高拒绝性大学所需要的成绩标准。

In the United States and throughout the world, far more public funding goes to highly rejective colleges than to regional public universities.

在美国及世界各地，流向高拒绝性大学的公家资金远多于区域性公立大学。