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Marshall S. Burroughs '94, a member of thevarsity tennis team, missed more than two weeks ofclasses last year. That's because the team wasbusy racking up frequent flyer miles.
"It's obviously hard to study on trips whenyou're in a hotel," says Burroughs. "Last year, wehad to take exams at the NCAA tournament."
Burroughs, from Raleigh, N.C., receivedscholarship offers from Duke University, theUniversity of Virginia and the University of NorthCarolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. His brother andfather attended UNC, but he came to Harvardbecause the school offered both a top-20 tennisprogram and a first-class education.
"The education is obviously the best you canget in the country," says Burroughs. "Going herewould probably present me with more opportunitiesoverall than UNC would."