Chapter 30
Jiang Yunu really needs to choose a school carefully.
Fortunately, she turned 11 years old and also luckily completed the free ability classification test. The brand new campus life seemed to be beckoning to Jiang Yunu. However, there was a very real problem in front of her - tuition fees.
Jiang Yunu's entire belongings consisted of the pile of things she stored on the second floor of the small garbage house.
She just obtained her resident status in Chat City yesterday and also created a personal account linked to her resident ID.
But as you can imagine, her account was empty, and the number of star coins was a delicate but unappealing zero.
Obtaining the enrollment qualification for this year's junior supernatural school does not mean that Jiang Yunu's ability to go to school is a sure thing.
But no matter what, it’s always a good idea to check the school information first.
Joyson took out the stack of recruitment flyers he had received recently. Fortunately, he didn't have the habit of throwing away flyers as waste paper.
"They're all here." Joyson put down all the flyers with a "pop".
This stack of recruitment advertisements is quite thick because it contains more than just thin paper. Some schools are probably richer and have stronger financial resources, so their recruitment advertisements are directly made into a handbook with an embedded chip that can be scanned by a personal terminal.
Qiao Yisen asked Jiang Yunu, "Do you want to start with the thin one or the thick one?"
Jiang Yunu thought they were all fine, so she chose to start from the one closest to her.
Qiao Yisen immediately pushed the thick booklet closest to Jiang Yunu toward her again: "This is the one!"
This manual belongs to a school which is a two-hour drive from Xiate. As Jiang Yunu expected, the school is indeed quite capable as it can produce such a physical manual. When you open the exquisitely bound manual, what comes into view is a panoramic shot of various parts of the campus environment. There is a chip in the corner of the school panorama, which can be scanned with a personal terminal.
Qiao Yisen scanned the chip, and a voice message popped up in the terminal: "Welcome to the online tour of Songnan Primary School of Supernatural Powers!"
Then three-dimensional projections lit up around the room, and the pictures in the brochure turned into surrounding architectural images.
Jiang Yunu took a cursory look at the school's introduction, automatically considering the faculty, teaching principles, and campus features as secondary considerations. She could tell from the floor plan that it was financially strong, and the 3D projection made the high-end, luxurious campus even more apparent. She asked simply, "Does your school offer subsidies and scholarships for needy students?"
The intelligent introduction voice paused: "...For students who excel during their studies, Songnan offers generous scholarships, as well as other incentives including but not limited to scholarships."
Jiang Yunu didn't forget the original intention of his question: "So, what about the subsidies for poor students? Also, does the school have any subsidy or reward system for newly enrolled students?"
The intelligent voice system paused again, as if it had been asked a question beyond its programming. It took a moment to respond, "For newly enrolled students, we will provide incentives in the middle and later stages of their studies, depending on their performance."
Jiang Yunu listened and nodded. "That means there will be no subsidies for poor students or new student admissions bonuses. Okay, thank you. I'll go to the next one."
The intelligent voice was about to say something, perhaps to retain students, but before Jiang Yunu could finish her words, the 3D projection was manually turned off by Joyson, who was very cooperative with her.
After turning off the projector, Joyson commented, "Such a luxurious campus, yet they don't even offer subsidies to freshmen or needy students. How stingy."
Jiang Yunu silently pushed the enrollment brochure of the school called Songnan away. She was already flipping through another flyer: "Maybe they're not targeting us."
Joyson repeated what Jiang Yunu had said to him at the entrance of the Public Library, shook his head and sighed, "It would be a loss for this school if we missed the opportunity to recruit you."
Joyson spoke very seriously, as if he had already foreseen what a genius Jiang Yunu was and that anyone who missed her school would regret it in the future.
Jiang Yunu is usually a confident person, but at this moment, she is more pragmatic. She did not follow Qiao Yisen to daydream, but went straight to the second school's freshman welfare introduction to see if this school can provide reliable poverty subsidies and star coin incentives.
The thick stack of flyers was flipped to the bottom. Some of the schools in it were frequent visitors to major advertising spaces. Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen had seen information about them on many public floating screens in Chat City, so they were both familiar with them. Some of the schools were printed on new flyers picked up from the hospital yesterday. Looking at them, the information was completely unfamiliar. Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen had never heard of the schools before.
Jiang Yunu carefully screened all the enrollment information and got a gratifying result - there were at least three schools that publicly and clearly stated that they would provide subsidies for poor students and also had generous benefits for new students.
The enrollment information of these three schools was picked out and spread out on the table.
One of them is also a 2-hour drive from Chat City, and the other two are nearly 3 hours away.
Joyson was shocked. "These last two have already taken three hours. They should be almost out of the main star zone, right?"
Jiang Yunu had been in this world for quite some time, but she was still unfamiliar with some new terms. She didn't understand and asked, "What is a major star region?"
Joyson explained, "There are a total of twenty-two designated star regions. The first region isn't tied to any other region, but the second, third, and fourth regions belong to a larger region. The fifth, sixth, and seventh regions are also larger regions. And so on. The nineteenth region where Shat is located is adjacent to the seventeenth and eighteenth regions. The three of us belong to a larger region, and we're ranked seventh among all the regions. The first region is independent and far ahead of the others."
Jiang Yunu guessed that numbering each star region, and then combining three star regions into a large region and numbering it again should be a more widely applicable regional management method in the interstellar era. However, after listening to a series of serial numbers, he still felt a little confused and dizzy if he was not careful.
"Anyway, all you need to know is that if you want to go to a place that's more than three hours away by rail, you basically have to visit a 'friendly neighborhood'." Joyson ended his explanation with this sentence.
The topic returned to the school information at hand.
"Let me take a closer look at their subsidy policy." Jiang Yunu spoke in a high-spirited tone, revealing her determination not to let any of her precious star coins - although she didn't even have a balance of 1 star coin now, but she believed she would have it in the future - be wasted.
Before helping Jiang Yunuo find a suitable school, Joeysen had never paid attention to the school's subsidies and welfare policies. Looking at Jiang Yunuo's high morale, he was inexplicably inspired and developed a strong sense of responsibility to protect the star coins at home.
Then the two of them immersed themselves in the enrollment information, turning the enrollment brochures and campus websites of the three schools upside down.
It took about two days for Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen to obtain more information and confirm their respective advantages and disadvantages.
Among the three schools that meet the criteria of "providing subsidies for poor students and benefits for new students", the first one is an old school with a certain reputation in Shatt City.
The old school had a long history and a strong track record of academic achievement. It was said that many alumni had successfully entered prestigious schools for supernatural abilities in leading regions. Judging by the college entrance exam standards of Jiang Yunu's former world, it was a "former strong school" that once boasted a high rate of first-tier university admissions, but had struggled in the past decade due to a somewhat conservative teaching model, leading to stagnant development.
The stagnation of development caused the school's ranking to drop, and the halo of a strong school seemed to be fading. However, the school did not give up. It was trying to adjust its policies and was willing to try new things. It wanted to inject new blood into the school. Therefore, it opened up more benefits this year and recruited more students, which allowed Jiang Yunu to catch up with its special preferential policies for poor students.
The second school is known in District 7 as the "King of Papers." As the name suggests, the "King of Papers" school's educational policy is to constantly test students, reminiscent of the "study until you die" ethos promoted by Jiang Yunu in some schools around the world. They strive to achieve high grades through high pressure, and students reportedly face a difficult life, with scholarships and benefits tied closely to their academic rankings.
The "Exam King" school also provides subsidies for poor students, and the subsidies are not low. However, this subsidy is conditional. Poor students must rely on exams to prove that they are worthy of the subsidy. If the exam ranking is lower than a certain position, they may face a reduction in the subsidy ratio next month. They have to rely on the next exam to improve their ranking and win back the subsidy ratio.
Thanks to its test scores, the "King of Test Papers" school has ranked on par with the first old school in the region.
The third school is the "Flea Market" school in the 18th district next door.
"Flea" is the nickname of the school that Joyson found on the Internet using his personal terminal. It is called Flea because its school policy changes every two years at most, and every quarter at the shortest. The school's core policy is always jumping around, as if it has no idea where it wants to develop. Even the students and teachers are confused. Going to school there is like riding a roller coaster with an invisible track. You have no idea whether you will be climbing uphill, descending quickly, or facing a sudden turn.
The subsidy ratio of the "flea market" school is also good, and the benefits for freshmen are surprisingly generous, but...
"But," Jiang Yunu said calmly, looking at the summarized information. She pushed the third form away and said, "Aren't you worried that the principal will give you benefits this month, but suddenly say next month that the school's finances are tight and the benefits policy has to be canceled?"
Joyson silently agreed and directly put a cross on the third information sheet.
So the options left are the old school and the "King of Papers".
Jiang Yunu looked over the two tables filled with school information again and again. Her eyes finally fell on the old school's achievements, which had been glorious before declining, and then struggled hard to climb up again after the decline.
"I want to go to this school," Jiang Yunu said. "It looks a bit old-fashioned, and I think some aspects of it might not suit me, but I'm attracted to it."
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