As a middle-school student, Yeh scored 279 on the Basic Competence Test and considered attending a prestigious Taipei high school. But he had no relatives in the city with whom he could stay and neither Jianguo High School nor the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University offer dormitory accommodation to their students.
國中基測考了 279 高分的葉昊定，當年也曾考慮負笈台北市唸明星高中，但他詢問建中和師大附中都沒有宿舍，在台北又沒有親戚。