What Makes a “Good College” – And Why It Matters @TED #ted #shorts

We say we want colleges to be more equitable, more accessible, but we tend to obsess over a tiny group of colleges places like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT. But our cultural obsession with a limited group of highly rejected colleges has major consequences.

我们说我们希望大学更加公平、更加可及，但我们往往过于沉迷于一小部分学校，比如哈佛、斯坦福、耶鲁、普林斯顿、麻省理工。然而，我们对这些高拒录率学校的文化痴迷却带来了重大后果。

Regional public universities, or RPUs for short, are the exact opposite. RPUs pride themselves on accepting everyone, or almost everyone who applies. RPU students are more likely to be first generation college students like I was, students of color, low-income students, veterans.

地区公立大学（RPUs）恰好相反。 RPUs 以接受几乎所有申请人为傲。 RPUs 的学生更有可能是像我一样的首代大学生，有色人种学生，低收入学生以及退伍军人。

So when you hear someone saying, oh, anyone can get into that school, push them on way, that's a bad thing. You don't have to be rude about it. You could just say, wow. That's amazing. That that school gives so many people the opportunity to go to college.

当你听到有人说"哦，谁都能进那所学校"时，坚决反驳，因为这是一个不好的说法。你不必对此粗鲁，你可以简单地说"哇，真是太好了，这所学校给了这么多人上大学的机会"。