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...Brown spent much of his time hitting long rallies from the back-court as he picked his way to a 7-6 first-set victory. As the rest of the team watched, Brown battled back from a 5-0 second-set deficit to force the set into a tie-breaker...
Chang won the second set, 7-6, after overcoming several set point eliminations in a 12-10 tie-breaker...
...closest match of the day, the Crimson's 70th-ranked Amy deLone battled tooth-and-nail with Kim Chang, a Brigham Young University transfer, but fell to Chang in a third-set tie-breaker...
After all, although it lost a heart-breaker to Princeton, 5-4, two weeks ago--also losing their chance at another year of National Champion status--Harvard is, nevertheless, the nation's second-ranked team...
Legacy status is just a tie-breaker. Before The Crimson obtained information to the contrary, Harvard officials (including President Derek C. Bok) stated that legacy status was only used to break a tie between otherwise equally qualified candidates. Harvard explained legacies' disproportionate rate of admission (about three times the norm) by pointing out that children of Harvard alumni were likely to have been raised in an environment conducive to educational attainment. Now we know that the average admitted legacy is not more qualified, or even equally qualified, but less qualified than the average admitted non-legacy...