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Chapter 348 - 229 - The neighboring university is all sour(╥﹏╥)o (Third more, please subscribe)_1

Chapter 348: Chapter 229 - The neighboring university is all sour(╥﹏╥)o (Third more, please subscribe)_1

Mist City, University Town.

Dozens of universities here have been seeing new students register since the 20th of August.

Among these universities are several privately run institutions, and the Mist City Arts and Science University is one of them.

Despite that, besides Mist City Arts and Science University, there are few other universities like Mist City Intelligent College and Mist City Industrial Technology College that are well-established private universities in Mist City.

Nevertheless, the number of students who enrol in these traditional private universities in Mist City has been decreasing year by year because running a private university has become increasingly challenging over the years.

Aside from regular admissions, even independent enrollment plans seemingly can’t rescue the number of enrolments.

In desperation, Mist City Intelligent College has resorted to overstating its propaganda during their admissions drive, bragging about their school on the official website, to the point that even the school’s students couldn’t stand to look at it anymore.

But that’s the thing about it.

This exaggerated promotion did attract a good number of self-enrolled students to Mist City Intelligent College. This year, the number of students they have enrolled independently is actually more than 300 compared to last year.

The addition of just over 300 people already made the owner of Mist City Intelligent College very happy. However, this number pales in comparison to the biggest winner of private universities this year, Mist City Arts and Science University.

"Principal Ding, this morning, we have accepted a total of 5429 officially registered students. Among them, 107 students applied for the Poverty Alleviation Student Loan. However, out of these 107 people, we are currently strictly reviewing them. We have rejected the loan applications of 41 students because we have found that the actual economic conditions of these students’ families are not difficult and their application for the Poverty Alleviation Student Loan was just for the sake of it."

In the Administration Building, Director Qi Chunsheng is reporting on the enrolment situation of this morning to Ding Yue.

After hearing Director Qi Chunsheng’s preliminary report, Ding Yue nodded slightly and said with satisfaction, "Good, it looks like the registration for enrolment is going smoothly. Furthermore, the review of students applying for the Poverty Alleviation Student Loan must be strictly carried out."

"Yes, that is necessary," Director Qi Chunsheng nodded in agreement.

To be honest, receiving more than five thousand new students in just one morning was somewhat unexpected for Ding Yue.

Following this trend, there might even be more people registering in the afternoon.

Many students travelled to Mist City by plane or high-speed rail today. They arrived in Mist City either in the morning or at noon and could only report at school in the afternoon.

Therefore, the largest scale of new students registering will undoubtedly be concentrated in the boom this afternoon.

By rough estimation, the number of people registering today should easily surpass ten thousand, even more than twelve thousand.

Then, added to the number that will report tomorrow, surpassing the system task target of fifteen thousand will be relatively easy.

There might also be many new students reporting tomorrow. Assuming the number could reach eight thousand, the total number of registrations might exceed twenty thousand in the next two days.

Furthermore, adding the late-coming new students in the next two to three days, a conservative estimate from Ding Yue would show that the final number of enrollments might be about 22,000 to 23,000 students.

This number is somewhat beyond Ding Yue’s expectation.

However, fortunately, the first phase of the expansion project of Mist City Arts and Science University constructed 12 apartment and dormitory buildings, which is sufficient for more than twenty thousand new students to move in.

"Principal Ding, the enrolment work in the afternoon should be even busier, so I will leave earlier to prepare."

After Director Qi Chunsheng finished reporting the enrolment situation of the morning, he left the Principal’s office.

At this time, Wen Ruohan was surprised and asked Principal Ding, "Principal Ding, according to this number of enrolments, wouldn’t we have ten thousand people reporting each day? Wouldn’t that be tens of thousands of people in a few days?"

"I told you that you couldn’t think on your feet, and you didn’t believe me. Today is obviously the day with the most new student registrations. Starting from tomorrow, the number will plummet dramatically over the next few days. If the total could reach twenty thousand, that would be quite good."

Ding Yue couldn’t help but glare at Wen Ruohan.

"Twenty thousand people is a lot though. We would receive so much money," Wen Ruohan immediately entered into a covetous state.

Even though the various fees collected, such as tuition and accommodation, have nothing to do with Wen Ruohan. For this academic year, she still has to give the school 25,000 yuan in tuition fees and 3,000 yuan in accommodation fees.

However, now that Wen Ruohan has become Principal Ding’s official personal secretary, receiving a monthly salary, the school fees of 25,000 and 3,000 for accommodation aren’t a big deal to her, she might even be able to avoid asking for money from home.

"By the way, Principal Ding, if there are so many people, we only have one stadium at our school. We might not have enough space for military training, right?"

Wen Ruohan suddenly thought of this and asked out of curiosity.

"One stadium obviously won’t be enough, but doesn’t our school sports center have a few spacious main roads? All can serve as a place for military training, as well as the square in front of Bookship Library, all these places can be used."

Ding Yue wasn’t worried that such a huge university wouldn’t be able to fit more than twenty thousand people for military training.

"However, another sports field is indeed required," Ding Yue pondered before adding a campus hotel, a sports football field and other buildings into the second phase of the expansion project of Mist City Arts and Science University.

After all, Mist City Arts and Science University applied for 5,000 acres of educational land last year. Going towards the east from here, a huge amount of land belongs to Mist City Arts and Science University.

In the first phase of the expansion project, including the new apartment and dormitories, basketball fields, and others together with the space for construction between buildings, only less than 800 acres were occupied.

"Principal Ding, what about the cafeteria?"

Wen Ruohan was bringing up where it hurts.

Ding Yue gave Wen Ruohan a glare and then silently added a new cafeteria, which would be the third cafeteria of Mist City Arts and Science University, into the second phase of the expansion project in his mind.

"Alright, Student Wen Ruohan, don’t talk about the cafeteria anymore."

With the end of the conversation, the air in the office instantly became quiet.

At this point in Mist City Intelligent College, an old trustee silently shed lemon-flavored tears as he looked at the number of new students his school has received from yesterday to today compared to half a day’s new enrollee number at Mist City Arts and Science University.

"Principal Zhao, something terrible has happened!"

Just as Zhao Minzhi was feeling the difference in the number of freshmen between Mist City Arts and Science University and his own Mist City Intelligent College, the person in charge of the admissions office burst into his office.

"What’s wrong, Zhang? You seem flustered!" Zhao Minzhi hastily asked.

"Principal Zhao, some of the new students who registered yesterday have started to withdraw from the school today," Zhang rushed to report.

"What? They’re withdrawing?" At these words, Principal Zhao instantly stood up from his chair.

You see,

It wasn’t easy for Mist City Intelligent College to recruit over a thousand students this year, which is more than 300 students more than last year. Now some of them are withdrawing?

"How many of them?" Principal Zhao hurriedly asked.

If it’s just a few of them, it’s no big deal. Let them withdraw.

"As of now, there are 178 people and the number is still increasing!" Zhang responded.

Bang!

This number instantly struck Principal Zhao like a thunderbolt, and his head buzzed.

"Why are these students withdrawing, and what’s the reason?" Principal Zhao asked again.

Zhang swallowed, caught his breath, and then answered, "Principal Zhao, they said our school has falsely advertised. Also, we’ve changed the four-person dormitories to six-person dormitories."

"What the hell! Isn’t that standard procedure!" Upon hearing this, Principal Zhao had enough and slapped his table, "These leeks are really picky!"

"Principal Zhao, what should we do? We can’t simply stop the new students from withdrawing, even the education department doesn’t allow this."

Zhang asked helplessly.

In this parallel world of Xia Country, if a student wants to withdraw after paying fees, once the withdrawal procedures are completed, their tuition and other fees would be refunded after deducting any education time (calculated by the month).

The education department still allows the students to withdraw.

That is to say, if those students at Mist City Intelligent College withdrew, the money they had paid would be fully refunded.

How infuriating is that!

"What else can we do, let them withdraw!" Zhao Minzhi huffed angrily.

"Sigh, Principal Zhao. That Mist City Arts and Science University, it’s a newly established private college, how did they manage to recruit so many students?"

Zhang exclaimed.

Upon hearing about Mist City Arts and Science University, Principal Zhao was even more infuriated, "Enough, stop talking about it!"

The number of students withdrawing from Mist City Intelligent College soon reached three digits.

"Damn it, what kind of rubbish school is this? They duped me into joining, even the public bathrooms and toilets are shared, screw it!"

A student who had been "duped" by the recruitment brochure of Mist City Intelligent College walked out of the school gate carrying his luggage, absolutely furious.

Originally, he thought of just slacking off at a private college, but then discovered that the dormitory and school conditions were completely different from the promotional materials. It felt like he had been scammed.

In a huff, this student directly applied for withdrawal, refunded tuition and accommodation fees, and decided to reevaluate his options back home.

"Brother, you also withdrew?" A voice came from behind him.

"Yeah."

"This garbage school, it’s unbelievable they can even scam over a thousand people, I’m astounded!" This brother-in-arms also cursed furiously.

"Let’s go, buy a train ticket to go home."

"Sigh, let’s just go home. Worst case scenario, don’t study. These private colleges are truly malicious."

Just as their hopes and morale sunk, and they were considering alternate plans back home, that’s when some more students carrying their luggage walked out of the school.

"Brother, how much did you guys get back?" Someone in the crowd shouted at these two.

"All of it, going home."

Suddenly someone pointed at a coach crossing the road and said, "Do you see that bus? What school does it belong to? They must be coming to pick up students, right?"

"Wow, what school is so good?"

"It’s written on the bus, Mist City Arts and Science University."

"I know, the one that’s been lauded quite remarkably on the internet, a private university."

"Should we go take a look?"

"Let’s check it out."

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