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Fewer rural students at colleges 高校农村学生越来越少了 The proportion of students from China's rural areas attending key universities has been falling significantly since the 1990s. 自20世纪90年代以来，我国高校农村学生的比例大幅下降。 The high cost of a university education plus the difficulty of finding a job after graduation has contributed to the prevailing idea in the countryside that "education is useless," the People's Daily reported. 人民日报报道称，大学高昂的学费，再加上毕业后的就业压力，让来自农村的很多人觉得“读书无用”。 Many rural families are ending their children's education earlier and sending them out to work to alleviate their economic burden. 许多农村家庭的孩子都会提早辍学，然后外出打工，帮家里减轻负担。 Entrance to elite universities is also becoming more difficult for students from the countryside because of fewer education resources or opportunities to travel. 由于教育条件的限制，以及没有机会开阔眼界，对于农村的孩子们来说，好大学的门槛太高了。 Top universities favor students with a wider knowledge of the world and have developed other skills in addition to their high test scores alone, the newspaper said. 该报还指出，除却高分外，顶尖的大学更青睐那些有着开阔的眼界且有一定特长的学生。 | 
