Peking University right to stay true to plan

PEKING UNIVERSITY was reported to have rejected two applicants who legally achieved the university's minimum score in the National College Entrance Examination. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

What Peking University faces is an interesting situation: Its plan was to recruit eight applicants from Central China's Henan province, and the first six applicants got very high scores in this year's National College Entrance Examination, or gaokao. However, when it came to the seventh and eighth applicants with the highest scores, their scores were about 100 points lower - out of a total of 750 - than the other six.

The university rejected the two at first, saying that they might find it difficult to graduate four years later. Yet after fierce online discussions on the importance of it following its plan, it has issued a notice saying it has enrolled the two applicants.