Chapter 364: [(364)] The seniors spoke up for her. Chapter 364: [(364)] The seniors spoke up for her. “Yes.”
“We remember now. That year, when they said the top science student in the provincial exams came from Songyuan and was a girl, nobody could believe it.”
“There have been female top students in the arts before, but for the science exams, how many have there been nationwide over the years? Our province has only ever seen her. If she had been at a well-known high school in the provincial capital, it wouldn’t be surprising, but she was from a less prestigious high school in Songyuan, a small place. Wouldn’t everyone find that odd?”
“What you’re saying isn’t right. Why can’t people from a small place become top students? I’ve even heard about a village celebrating with gongs and drums when they had a top student.” Zhu Huicang criticized their point of view.
“No, no, no, Doctor Zhu, we’re not looking down on her. It’s just really rare to see this happen. It sounds like something out of a story, you know?” Three predecessors from Zhongshan Medical University explained.
“Do you guys really pay that much attention to the college entrance examination every year?” Zhu Huicang questioned their statement. Doctors are very busy, and unless they have kids sitting the exams themselves, why would they care so much about it, even if it is like a storybook?
“Well, we thought she would choose Zhongshan Medical University, but we were surprised when we heard she only applied to Guoxie. College preferences are decided before the exam, and you would think a student with that much confidence in their scores would choose Zhongshan Medical University first.”
They had talked a lot, but it seemed Zhongshan Medical University believed it was more likely for top students from the province to choose Zhongshan over Guoxie.
Wasn’t this comment indirectly belittling Guoxie?
People from Guoxie would be angry. Zhu Huicang angrily said, “That’s a presumptuous thing to say. What kind of logic is that? If you have the scores to get into Guoxie, of course, you’d choose Guoxie over Zhongshan Medical College!”
“You’ve misunderstood us, Teacher Zhu. Local students have a home advantage when applying to their local medical college, and they tend to choose the local one, unless there’s a special reason.”
“What special reason? Do you think she just couldn’t make it into Zhongshan Medical so she had no choice but to resort to our Guoxie?” Zhu Huicang was so mad his nostrils flared with breath. “You might as well admit you’re excluding outsiders. You’re using so-called home advantage as an excuse. Because she’s from a small place, you look down on her, and that’s why it sounds like a story to you. Why should she bother going to your provincial capital to face discrimination? It’s better for her to come to us at Guoxie. Guoxie welcomes people from all over, with absolutely no exclusion!”
“No, no, Teacher Zhu. We’re telling the truth; there’s data to back it up. Most students from our province who score at the top in science and want to study medicine, and can meet Guoxie’s cutoff score, they generally apply to Zhongshan Medical College,” the three people asserted with data to support their claim.
Considering the data, someone thought there was a problem. Fu Xinheng turned and asked them, “Does anyone have higher scores than her?”
“Yeah, does anyone?” Tan Kelin put down his chopsticks and joined in.
Mainly because the way these people had spoken about the advantages of a certain university made those from the Beidu faction feel uneasy: what does it mean that even if they’re less competent than other medical schools, they can still admit the best students because of the local advantage? Wouldn’t other medical schools have a reason to protest?
“What ‘well’ this and that, Yingying was the top science student, with the highest scores. Is there anyone who’s not the top student with higher scores than her?” Wu Lixuan said. “Even someone who just graduated from primary school understands this. Shouldn’t doctors with higher education grasp it even better?”
All the highly educated doctors in the private room looked at her in unison.
Turns out, a primary school graduate hit the nail on the head.