High-scoring students face another roadblock

With the results of College Entrance Examination, or gaokao, released, families of candidates who scored high are happy and looking forward to the arrival of acceptance letter from their preferred universities. But the following families, although happy, are anxious whether their children will receive the letter even though they have scored high in the exam or will be rejected because they are disabled.

Huang Weixin, score: 611

Huang became near-blind because of cerebral tumor when he was a second grader. He has to use magnifying glass to read and write, which means he spends much more time than others to finish study.

"I believe I can succeed on my own by overcoming physical difficulties," said Huang. He ranked among top 10 in every examination held during his three-year high school study in Jingshan county, Central China's Hubei province.

He scored 611 out of 750 in this year's gaokao, which surpassed the province's enrollment cutoff for first-tier universities by 99.

He applied to Central China Normal University and was worried that he might be rejected due to disability.

An unnamed spokesperson of the admission office of Central China Normal University said that disabled candidates will be treated equal with other candidates. As long as the candidate's score is enough, and the applied major's requirement does not conflict with his physical disability, the candidate will be enrolled.