More than 400 senior high school graduates from Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces gathered in Xujiahui area this weekend, competing for a limited number of entrance spots at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

　　The university plans to recruit 150 students throughout the mainland this year, but the admission's office has already received more than 2,600 applications so far.

　　Facing such a large number of candidates, two teams of professors were sent by the university to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu to interview candidates who scored well on their college entrance examinations.

　　The Hong Kong school's tuition fee for a mainland student is 60,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$7,700) a year, about 12 times the level at Fudan University, one of the city's top colleges.