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...case, the Crimson will be playing to win all weekend, unwilling to leave its fate in the hands of the selection committee that denied it a chance to defend its national championship last year after falling to Dartmouth in the ECAC semifinal...
...Brown will have to survive mental and physical challenges-and not alienate the other participants, who ultimately decide his fate...
...White, in other words, may very well hold her onetime sponsor's fate in her hands. And no one who knows her doubts she will tackle this case with the same energy she gives to every one that crosses her Manhattan desk...
Despite these facts, both Harvard and St. Lawrence will look at Saturday's ECAC semifinal as a must-win. Neither team wants to leave its NCAA tournament fate to the subjectivity of the selection committee--especially Harvard, who lost to Dartmouth in last year's ECAC semifinals and was stunned by its subsequent tournament exclusion...
Conspicuously absent from the determination of Susan's fate is any mention of her SATs. That's because, in the parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10%, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming...