Lee Si-chen, president of NTU and of the Joint Board, College Recruitment Commission, has suggested that the only way to achieve this kind of balance is to split rural and non-rural, and elite and non-elite, into separate groups and to guarantee places for students from non-elite rural high schools.
對此，現任大學招聯會主席、台大校長李嗣涔就曾建議，若真要平衡城鄉差距，只能把「偏遠」與「非偏遠」、「明星」與「非明星」分成兩種區塊，並且保障偏遠非明星高中的錄取名額。