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My efforts to persuade my classmates to give optional writing or language classes a try are ignored, as to many of them it’s all just too squishy and unnecessary, and not sufficiently preprofessional.

But she continued to work with Graham as a coach and choreographer, and founded the Martha Graham Ensemble, a preprofessional company now known as Graham 2, before serving as associate artistic director of the Graham dance company in the early 1990s.

She began working at the UW in 1974 as the director of the Preprofessional Program for Minority Students in Health Sciences, later becoming an assistant to the vice president at the Office of Minority Affairs.

The USL is also launching a preprofessional W-League for women next year.

According to Savannah Williams, director of external affairs for Duke Ellington School, it is the only combined preprofessional training arts program and college preparatory program in the District.