A female Mong student in Nghe An who passed the entrance exam to Hanoi Medical University is at risk of missing her appointment to the lecture hall.

Outstanding Mong female student

Tho Y Cu is a Mong female student, born and raised in Na Nieng village, a remote village of Tri Le commune, Que Phong district.

Tho Y Cu's family has 4 siblings, both parents are farmers, but all 3 children passed the exam and went to study at Nghe An Ethnic Minority High School No. 2. Y Cu is the youngest child, Y Cu's older brother after graduating passed the exam to enter the Army Officers University 1. Y Cu's older sister, 2 years ago, was also a student with high graduation scores, but due to family circumstances, she had to put her dream of going to university on hold to go to work.

The only person who did not have a chance to study properly was Ý Cu's eldest sister. When she was young, due to difficult circumstances, Ý Cu's sister did not enter first grade until she was 9 years old. After finishing third grade, she skipped to sixth grade because she was older than her peers. Later, with great effort, Ý Cu's sister only finished ninth grade and got married, and now she is in elementary school.

Talking about her family situation, Tho Y Cu also said that when she was 13 or 14 years old, she was also forced to marry by a boy in the village. Someone even promised Y Cu that after getting married, they would let her continue to go to school. But looking at her sister's story, Y Cu never thought that she would drop out of school to get married, "My parents are very poor so they always told me to try hard to have a job in the future."

Because of her desire to go to school, Y Cu studied well from a young age. In particular, while her peers mainly focused on social subjects, Y Cu loved to study Math. Y Cu's first Math lessons were simple multiplications that her father often asked her when she first entered primary school. In junior high school, she was admitted to the district's boarding school, and was trained by teachers. Y Cu won a Math prize at the district's excellent student competition and was able to compete in the provincial competition. In grade 10, in her first year at the Ethnic Boarding High School No. 2, Y Cu won an Encouragement Prize in Math at the school level.

When studying in high school, Ý Cu always determined that she would study block A and dreamed of passing the entrance exam to the Military Technical University. Ý Cu shared: I think the military environment will suit my family's circumstances. There, I don't have to worry about tuition fees, the State will provide food and accommodation. After graduating, I will also have a job...

Although she had such a desire, her dream could not be realized after the initial health check.

It was the end of April, less than 3 months before the 2024 High School Graduation Exam. While confused about which school to choose, Tho Y Cu decided to switch from block A (Math - Physics - Chemistry) to block B (Math - Chemistry - Biology).

Talking more about the reason, this female student said: Previously, my first wish was to enter the Military Technical School and my second wish was to enter the Military Medical Academy. Because both wishes could not be fulfilled, I decided to enter the Medical School, because my wish is to treat people.

Choosing to study block B, Ý Cu shared that she "encountered countless difficulties" because, besides Math, which she was quite confident in, her level in Chemistry and Biology was only at the "initial" level, meaning she could do exercises at the level of recognition, understanding and mainly theory.

To fill in this gap in knowledge, 3 months before the High School Graduation Exam, Ý Cu only slept 3-4 hours a day. In addition to proactively asking for support from teachers at school, Ý Cu asked her friends and spent a lot of time studying on her own. During the exam preparation period, Ý Cu also admitted that she "hid in the bathroom and cried" many times because she found studying too difficult and there were times when the test results were not as expected. It was not until the last mock exam that Ý Cu began to feel confident because her scores had begun to improve with 7 and 8 points. In the official exam, she showed her full potential and achieved an 8 in Math, an 8.75 in Chemistry and a 9 in Biology. With a fairly high score, plus priority points, Ý Cu passed the entrance exam to the Faculty of General Medicine - Hanoi Medical University (Thanh Hoa branch).

In Tri Le commune where Y Cu lives, she was the first female Mong student to be admitted to Hanoi Medical University.

Desire to go to college

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I registered for 3 wishes and all of them were in medical schools, in which wish 1 is Hanoi Medical University, wish 2 is Hue Medical University and wish 3 is Vinh Medical University. However, yesterday my father asked me: Medical school tuition is so high, can I transfer to a school with lower tuition? I have not answered because that is impossible. Moreover, I only dream of becoming a doctor.

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More than a week after the universities announced their admission scores and officially passed the entrance exam, Tho Y Cu still did not know whether he could go to university or not. Even his parents did not have an answer to his father's question. Therefore, Y Cu thought of the worst case scenario, which was having to stay home and work: "My father only studied until grade 2 and then dropped out of school. My mother is illiterate and had to attend the commune's literacy class. Her health is not good. In the past, my brothers went to military school, so the family did not have to provide money for the years he went to university. As for me, the tuition alone for one year of school is 27 million VND. I don't know where to get the money for me to go to school."

On the threshold of university, this was also the first time Tho Y Cu understood the hardships of being a poor child. Before that, after 4 years of boarding school at the district school and 3 years in Vinh city to board at the provincial school, Y Cu had almost no money to spend.

The only money that her parents gave her was for the transportation from home to school. For her personal expenses, Y Cu saved from the small amount of money that the State supported for ethnic minority students, or the class's reward money after each high score. She deposited all of this money with her homeroom teacher and only withdrew it when absolutely necessary.

Talking about her students, teacher Le Lan Thuong - homeroom teacher of class 12A3 said: Usually, students will ask her to withdraw money once every one or two weeks. But Y Cu only asks to withdraw a few times a year and spends very frugally. Personally, he is also a very talented person, hard-working and always strives to achieve his dreams.

To be able to enter Hanoi Medical University, besides tuition fees, Tho Y Cu is also worried about daily living expenses. Being a member of a small ethnic minority and a poor household, her biggest wish is to be supported in the dormitory and receive partial tuition support.

The remaining difficulty, she said that she will work hard to find a part-time job, tutoring or any other job. As for the family, with the current conditions, providing Tho Y Cu with a few million dong is really a difficult problem.

In just a few days, Hanoi Medical University will begin enrolling admitted candidates.

But until now, the road to university for Tho Y Cu is still full of difficulties...