At the age of 19, Ane Faerovig hung up her toe shoes after years of studying classical dance at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm. She indulged her love of travel—briefly studying film, literature, and Spanish in Cuba—before enrolling in an interior design college in her hometown of Oslo. “I had always been interested in interiors,” she says, “but dancing didn’t leave room for anything else.” She knew of Parsons by reputation, and visited the school on a trip to New York. “There was no question in my mind—if I was accepted, I would find a way to go.”