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...summer following her first audition at ABT, Weiss experienced a dramatic change in her professional dance aspirations. "I was getting over an injury," she recalls, "and sort of figuring out that ballet wasn't necessarily the world I wanted to be in. It was the ninth time I had been seriously injured—I'd had stress fractures, sprained ankles, bad knee problems that I knew I would be looking forward to during my career...
...Weiss also noticed an important void in her life: lack of intellectual stimulation. "After the first year I was really bored! I had read a ridiculous number of books because if I wasn't in class or on stage or in rehearsal, there really wasn't that much...
...Although still holding out for a possible position at ABT, Weiss decided to keep her options open and re-applied to colleges. Getting her foot in the door, however, was not as simple as it had been the previous year...
...Weiss was planning to attend another audition at ABT following her second Harvard interview. When asked about the prospect of an offer from the company, she remained honest about her priorities and told the interviewer, "If I get the contract, I won't come to Harvard...
...audition turned out to be a cattle call, where not one of the 80 talented dancers was offered a spot. Reflecting on her decision to accept Harvard's subsequent offer of admission Weiss says, "I think I could have lasted maybe one or two more years, but I don't need to go through that again...