As a result, many of the lower-quality high schools and universities cannot recruit their full complement of students, while the majority of kids are still killing themselves to squeeze into the star schools.
在這種情況下，那怕全國有許多私立高中、大學招生不足、來者不拒，絕大多數孩子還是為了擠進那幾所國立的明星級學校而吃盡苦頭。