Jun 30, 2015 07:03 PM

Tsinghua, PKU Get into Social Media Spat over Student Recruiting

Recruiters from Peking and Tsinghua universities compete for the attention of a student named Ye Tong, who did well on her college entrance exam. Ye recently graduated but was at her former high school in Guangzhou on June 25 for a press conference

(Beijing) – Provincial admissions offices of top two universities got into a social media spat over the recruiting of top students – complete with charges that the colleges pay top students to choose them – an exchange that one education expert said is indicative of China's overemphasis on test results.

The war of words between the admissions offices of Peking University and Tsinghua University in the southwestern province of Sichuan erupted as recent high school graduates are getting the results of the "gaokao" university entrance exams they took early in June.