Looking back, Liao thinks one of the reasons was the system--only later did she discover that her department accepted only one foreign student a year.
廖芳濱事後回想，老師所以如此慎重，一方面是因為編制﹘﹘後來他才知道教育行政學科每年只有一個外國留學生名額；一方面則是因為東大對人文學科學位的授與十分嚴格。