Some 19 of the 33 students the university ultimately admitted under the program were from high schools that had never before sent a student to NSYSU. Unfortunately, many others were from second-tier Kaohsiung City high schools. The latter were far from most people's notion of disadvantaged and the Stars Program was not intended to help them get into a university.
令人遺憾的是，最後錄取了 33 名學生，其中 19 人來自從來沒有學生進入中山大學的高中，但仍收進不少高雄市的二線高中學生，而他們並不是一般人心目中的偏鄉弱勢，與繁星初衷有很大落差，「只要是純粹數量性的比分競賽，偏鄉高中學生就很難贏過都會高中。」