Professor Chu Wan-li, of NTU's College of Liberal Arts, has written in unreserved praise of Fu's principled admissions policy. Under Fu, no one could skip the entrance exams and get into NTU on the strength of connections. As for the exams themselves, the questions were formulated with extreme care, and the security measures surrounding the printing of the exam sheets went beyond what anyone not involved could imagine.
文學院教授居萬里曾為文指出，傅斯年對招收學生的認真程度，真是無以復加，介紹學生而不由考試入學的事，絕對沒有，就以考試來說，出題之審慎，和印題時關防之嚴密，絕非外人所能想像。