As the two best choices outside of Tsinghua and Peking University, the admissions offices of Fudan University and Zhejiang University also made token phone calls, though they knew they were most likely just running alongside as also-rans.
Students with lower rankings might actually be swayed by a few favorable conditions, but top scorers were a different story—the gap in appeal was simply too great.
Su Yizhou didn't reveal his true thoughts at first, yet between the lines he gave both schools a glimmer of hope, telling them he hadn't accepted Tsinghua and Peking University yet and might consider their institutions.
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