While students get to choose their majors freely, when too many students pick the same major, the school steps in and assigns spots based on grades. If a student doesn''t agree with the reassignment and negotiations don''t help, they pretty much have no choice but to withdraw.


    Mirabe showed up at school bright and early, heading straight for her department''s office. She wasn''t too fussed about which sub-department she''d end up in, but she wanted a clear reason for any reassignment. After looking into the past years at Prestige College''s Biology Department, she saw that having more applicants than spots was almost unheard of.


    Zane, the department teacher, saw her confusion and stayed silent for a bit. He didn''t beat around the bush but exined patiently, "Sometimes we allocate based on grades. You''re the only humanities student we epted this year, so we''ve temporarily ced you in our Bioinformatics Division."


    Even though Mirabe was an exceptional humanities valedictorian, for a Biology Department that typically only took in science students, she was no better than a low-scoring science student to them-maybe even worse. None of the departments wanted to be seen as falling behind, so the teacher from her intended major shoved her into Bioinformatics.


    Zane was pretty frustrated with how the college dumped all the lower-scoring freshmen into their Bioinformatics Division. Sure, their division didn''t sound as shy as the others, but it was a critical part of the Life Engineering field. Without the big data from Bioinformatics, lots of research projects wouldn''t get off the ground.


    Despite his frustration, Zane didn''t have the guts to fight this unfair treatment. Their Bioinformatics Department hadn''t produced a standout student in big data analysis for years, leaving them as the underdogs. They were lucky to get even one or two million out of the thirty million in annual government research funding, which was peanutspared to what other departments got.


    This funding shortfall made it hard to run research courses and even harder to cultivate new talent. Zane sighed inwardly.


    By now, Mirabe had caught the gist of Zane''s exnation. In short, she was a versatile prodigy, but because she was a humanities graduate, other departments'' teachers didn''t want her, so Bioinformatics had to take her in. How ironic.


    Seeing Mirabe stay silent, Zane understood she was upset about being ced a department she didn''t want. He cleared his throat and said, "If you really can''t stand being in Bioinformatics, I can check with other departments for you..."


    Before he could finish, Calvin, the department head, walked in and cut him off, "Mr. Zane, all new students have already been allocated. You''re aware of this, aren''t you?"


    Zane looked at Mr. Calvin, about to speak, "But Mirabe''s preference wasn''t Bioinformatics. Forcing her here could mess up her future."


    Calvin nced briefly at Mirabe and then back at Zane, "I don''t think the issue is with this student''s major preference."


    Zane frowned, trying to decipher what Calvin meant...