Application tampering highlights private colleges' survival crisis

Police have nabbed two people who allegedly tampered with students' college applications to help a private college boost recruitment, following China's national college entrance exams.

The two, a man surnamed Li and a woman surnamed Zheng, were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday after secretly editing online lists created by 14 prospective college students from Zhoukou, Henan province, local media said on Friday.

The students, all from Zhoukou City Medical School, completed an entrance examination for medical college in June. They, like most other high school grads, participated in a university selection process in which they prioritized their first, second and third choices for college, with lists for vocational colleges posted online.