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...Slow Lane...
...another pre-professional ballerina, the decision to focus on college came sooner, and more definitively. Allison E. Lane '02, who originates from Oregon, studied at SAB during her junior and senior year of high school. As the official school of New York City Ballet, SAB generally increases a young dancer's chances of getting into a major company, but not without discrimination against students who desire a college education. "In the school I was at," Lane explains, "it was the type of thing where if they knew you were going to college, they might not consider you for a position...
...While at SAB, Lane attended the Professional Children's School in New York, and always took academics very seriously. When she was offered a spot in both the Miami City Ballet and Harvard in the spring of her senior year, Lane's decision was relatively clear-cut. "I just never saw myself dancing professionally," she says. "If you go that route, it becomes your entire life, and there were just so many other things I wanted to do. I was even hesitant to defer for a year to dance, just because I wanted to be prepared academically...
...Lane and Weiss agree that the discipline of ballet prepped them for the intellectual rigors of the Harvard atmosphere, but the social differences between the environments proved more striking. According to Lane, "Because of the nature of a ballet company, you're around the same people every day. You're in kind of this strange world and it's really hard to get out of it because you're dancing all the time. That was the one thing I loved about Harvard—Every day I would meet someone different...
...With more time on their hands, the women agree that Harvard has broadened their perspectives on the world of dating. Whereas Santoro admits she was "educated" her freshman year, Lane jokes about they irony of her own experience: "In high school, all the guys I lived with were gay. So I knew a lot of guys, but it just wasn't working for me!" More adamant about her priorities, Weiss claims that finding a "normal boyfriend" was the main reason she chose Harvard. Clearly, normal is a relative term...