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。

Regional public universities, or RPUs, pride themselves on accepting everyone or almost everyone who applies.

区域性公立大学以接受每个申请者为荣，或者几乎只要申请就能录取。

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。

Because of this, RPUs have become more expensive, which hurts low-income students and has caused student loan debt to skyrocket.

基于这个原因，区域性公立大学变得更昂贵，这会影响到低收入学生，导致学生贷款债务急剧上升。

To the RPUs that truly serve their communities.

对于真正为社区服务的 RPU。

But let's imagine, if Michael Bloomberg had spread that donation across the 430 RPUs in the country, each would have received four million dollars.

但咱们想象一下，如果麦可‧彭博把那笔捐款分给全国四百三十所区域性州立大学，每一所大学就能得到四百万美金。

And RPU students are more likely to be first generation college students like I was, students of color, low-income students, veterans and adults balancing work and family while going to school.

而区域性公立大学的学生通常都是像我这种第一代大学生、有色人种学生、低收入户学生、退伍军人，以及在工作和家庭中寻找平衡还要去上学的成人。