Before nine o'clock the next morning, Dong Qiangqiang arrived at the corridor outside the university admissions office. To his surprise, the corridor was already full of people, with the most faces of Chinese students.
Dong Qiangqiang did a rough count and found that there were more than thirty people. If there weren't foreigners queuing up, he would have thought he had arrived at the academic office of a domestic university.
Since he arrived late, Dong Qiangqiang sat further back in the queue. Seeing the people in front of him entering happily and coming out dejected, his heart sank little by little.
By the time he entered the room, it was almost 12 o'clock, and the morning working hours were about to end.
In the suite on the left after entering the door, behind a large desk, a middle-aged woman with gray hair sat. She looks about forty years old, wearing a pair of brown thick-rimmed square glasses. Behind the frames is a pair of stern-looking eyes. There are dense crow's feet around the corners of the eyes, and two nasolabial folds hanging from the left and right sides of the nose. Around the mouth. The whole person looks majestic.
She glanced at Dong Qiangqiang and stretched out her hand to motion for him to sit down.
Dong Qiangqiang sat down and took out the materials he brought from his backpack.
"Hello, I am Ms. Miller, who is in charge of student affairs at the university." As soon as she opened her mouth, Dong Qiangqiang was startled by her masculine tone.
"Oh, hello, I am Dong Qiangqiang, from China. I have previously applied for the master's program in political economics at the University of Hannover, and I have received a notification from the university." Dong Qiangqiang put the materials in front of her as he spoke. "But I saw a notice posted outside the door, which said that Chinese students who registered in September this year need to provide an APS certificate. I would like to ask, what should I do in a situation like mine? Thank you."
Ms. Miller looked at his notice, then picked up his other materials and looked at them, and said to Dong Qiangqiang: "Your notice is not a notice of enrollment, but a notice of taking the university entrance exam, and this The notification letter was sent to you by the previous university. From now on, all Chinese students must provide the APS certificate before they can apply for or register at the university. If you want to take the university's entrance exam, you must also submit the APS certificate. In addition, I noticed , you previously had a junior college degree, and according to the relevant regulations of the University of Hannover, even if you pass the university's entrance examination, you cannot go to university directly."
When Dong Qiangqiang heard that he had to provide the APS certificate no matter what, he was a little surprised and was too distracted to understand what she said next. He asked vaguely: "You mean...even if I have an APS certificate and pass the university's entrance exam, I can't go to university?"
"That's it." Ms. Miller supported the frame, folded the materials together and gave it to Dong Qiangqiang.
Dong Qiangqiang was a little flustered. He had never thought about this situation before. Why did the consultation result in a worse result? Not only do you have to provide an APS certificate, but you can’t go to college? This, what's all this?
"Then...then what can I study if I pass the university entrance exam?" Dong Qiangqiang squeezed out a sentence through his teeth.
"College Prep." Ms. Miller looked at his face expressionlessly. "Of course there is another situation."
"What's going on?" Dong Qiangqiang asked.
"You can also directly register for the university's preparatory examination. Of course, you must submit the APS certificate when registering for the preparatory examination. If you pass the preparatory examination, you can directly enter the university's preparatory examination. After graduating from the preparatory examination, you can apply for related majors at the University of Hannover based on your graduation results. .”
"Then I am already in Germany, how can I apply for an APS certificate?"
"You have to ask the organization that issued the certificate. I can't answer that question."
"When will the registration for the preparatory exam start? When will it end?" Dong Qiangqiang felt like his head was getting bigger, and he felt that he had more and more questions.
"You can register in early June, and the deadline is usually mid-July."
"So, when is the college preparatory exam?"
"This year's preparatory exam is expected to be between early August and mid-August, but the specific time will not be determined until late July. If you pass the exam, school will start in September."
After answering Dong Qiangqiang's last question, the clock on the table rang a clear bell, marking 12 o'clock.
Ms. Miller glanced at him: "No matter what exam you want to take, you need to provide the APS certificate. This is very important."
Dong Qiangqiang recalled that he should have walked out of the admissions office in despair. There was no one in the corridor, and it was eerily quiet.
He walked down the stairs in a daze, his mind went blank. He thought that the wonderful life of studying abroad was about to unfold in a colorful way, but what he didn't expect was a bucket of cold water in his pocket.
At this point, there's no point in being anxious. It's better to call and ask the organization that issued the certificate first.
Due to daylight saving time, there is a 6-hour time difference between Germany and China. It was 18:00 in China, just after get off work time, so he could only call tomorrow to ask. Thinking of this, he wrote down the answers to the questions he just asked in his notebook. While writing, he thought about what questions he would ask tomorrow.
Just when he finished writing and put away the notebook, there was a sudden "pop" sound, and something fell out of the folder of the notebook and fell to the ground. He looked down and saw that it was Jin Yuan's student ID card.
Dong Qiangqiang then remembered what happened during dinner last night. He quickly dialed Jin Yuan's mobile phone, but the voice prompt on the mobile phone was: the other party is no longer in the service area, please call again later.
Maybe he's on the subway. Dong Qiangqiang thought about dialing again later and walked out of the main building lobby.
As he walked down the steps, he suddenly remembered the last time he met Lu Wei at the entrance of the library. There must be a lot of Chinese students in the library. If he went to ask around, he might be able to get useful information.
Thinking of this, he entered the university library in three steps at a time.
The library is a two-story glass building. As soon as you enter the door, there is a bag depository on the left and a revolving door on the right. After passing through the revolving door, you can enter the library lobby.
Dong Qiangqiang kept his bag and walked in casually after passing through the turnstile.
The hall of the library is lined with bookshelves containing various periodicals and magazines. There are sofas and tables next to them. Students in twos and threes are reading newspapers or magazines. The hall is very quiet.
Dong Qiangqiang looked around and found no Chinese students, so he walked back to the computer room. When he gently pushed open the computer room door, he saw dozens of computers neatly placed in rows on the white desk.
He looked around and saw in the corner on the right front, a Chinese girl sitting at the desk and concentrating on writing something on the computer. He quietly walked over.
"Classmate," Dong Qiangqiang approached and whispered, "Hello."
When the girl heard someone saying hello in Chinese, she quickly raised her head and saw a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on her nose, looking very quiet.
"Hello." She replied equally quietly.
