103: Chapter 76: A Phone Call That Changed Perceptions (Part 2) 103: Chapter 76: A Phone Call That Changed Perceptions (Part 2) Everything Xue Song said on the phone made Qiao Yu realize that his previous thoughts were indeed too simplistic.
Of course, all this had to do with what Lan Jie had told him before.
However, speaking of which, it’s true that the good guy has never been a university professor, so so cognitive bias seems normal.
After all, high school and university are two completely different systems.
And on the other end of the line, Xue Song was still tirelessly explaining.
“Take our Yujiang University for example, the admissions work is directly outsourced to each departnt.
For instance, our Mathematics Departnt is responsible for admissions in Dongshan Province this year.
Do you think the professors assigned to carry out admissions work will give face to the admissions office?
Don’t be silly!
The admission processes at Huaqing and Yanbei, although I haven’t researched them, should be roughly the sa.
In other words, the teachers responsible for admissions might very well have been top scorers in the national exam or even forr competition champions, do you think they would care about city or provincial top scorers?”
Qiao Yu listened intently, as all this information was completely out of reach for soone like him, a middle school student, or even for ordinary people.
In this sense, Xue Song was genuinely sharing for free, regardless of his motives.
“So, before you enter university, I want you to complete a paper as the first author that can be published in a journal ranked in the top 5% of Area 1.
However, the reason I’m asking you to do this is not for you to negotiate scholarships with Huaqing or Yanbei over such trivial matters.
It’s to give you the qualification to choose an academician as your ntor, preferably one of those senior academicians who haven’t taken students in recent years.
This is important for you because, on an academic level, you don’t need much guidance.
All you need is soone to help you shield against issues so you can focus on research during your student years.
Don’t think it’s a simple task.
Can you imagine soone watering down findings in another lab just out of jealousy?
With such a ntor, at least you won’t encounter these problems while doing research.
A senior academician values their reputation and is willing to go all out for their closed-door disciple, and their words carry weight.
You should know that most of your senior brothers and sisters have already made a na for themselves in academia, and they will all be your support.
An Area 1 paper may not seem like much to them.
But for a student who can independently complete a high-quality Area 1 paper while just entering high school, and also win a gold dal in both the IMO and the Little Alibaba Competition, it’s different.
Put it this way, my situation back then was quite similar to yours, so I went to Princeton and secured a renowned mathematics ntor early on, which led to my achievents today.”
“Ah?
A senior academician ntor?
Well, does the Mathematics Departnt at Yujiang University have senior academicians?” Qiao Yu couldn’t help but ask.
“There are academicians but no senior academicians.
Also, Yujiang University can’t handle much; don’t co.”
Honestly, Xue Song’s words really surprised Qiao Yu.
He originally thought that Professor Xue, after saying so much today, would ultimately aim for him to study at Yujiang University, but this statent completely ruled out that possibility.
Qiao Yu had also searched online before, and at least in Huaxia, academicians are considered the highest honor in the academic field.
As for those senior academicians among academicians…
they are probably the top-tier bosses, right?
In any case, for a middle schooler, this topic seed sowhat distant.
But soon, Xue Song’s words made Qiao Yu realize that this was actually an issue he would face in a year’s ti.
“In short, your first choice should be a senior academician ntor.
So, it doesn’t matter who contacts you now, don’t pay attention to them.
Quietly prepare for your competitions and papers.
Then publish the paper, obtain the IMO gold dal, and sign a joint undergraduate-master’s-doctorate program agreent with Huaqing or Yanbei.
When signing this agreent, you can directly confirm the ntor.
Don’t bother with other trivial conditions.
By that ti, choose the institution whose ntor has a stronger voice and is more suitable for you academically.”
Upon hearing this, Qiao Yu sincerely said, “Thank you, Professor Xue.”
“Don’t thank just yet.
I’m helping you plan so much with conditions.
For your first paper, you are the first author, but the corresponding author should be my na, and the affiliated institution should be Yujiang University.
Do you have a problem with that?”
Qiao Yu imdiately replied, “No problem!”
There really wasn’t a problem.
Although he didn’t quite understand papers, Lan Jie had talked to him about so things on the way back to Star City.
It is commonplace for students’ papers to have their ntor listed as the corresponding author.
It’s not just that ntors need the corresponding author credit, but often students need their ntors as the corresponding authors to pave the way.
After all, students are usually newcors to academia.
Unless it’s a completely ambitionless, money-driven journal, editors won’t even take a proper look.
Not to ntion the Area 1 journals recognized by the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, which generally rank in the top 30% internationally and typically aren’t short on submissions.
The difficulty for an unknown newcor to publish in such journals is imaginable.
Sotis even many students’ papers are just nas that ntors reluctantly agree to as corresponding authors.
If the paper is poorly written and published, it can be embarrassing, but to et the school’s minimum graduation requirents, they have to accept it.
It’s like a classic complaint circulating between ntors and students: “Your paper poses no threat to my status in academia, but it leads to disgrace in the field of education.”
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