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Ann Trail
Academic Counselor-Lead

Hello. I am Ann Trail and I am one of the advisers in the Gateway Center. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended Georgetown University, where I earned a B.S. in Chinese. From there I moved to Bloomington, Indiana where I pursued graduate studies in Comparative Literature at Indiana University. While there I had several TA-ships, in French, Chinese, Comparative Literature and in a special summer program similar to Upward Bound. I held FLAS fellowships for two years.

I began my advising career at UW a little over 20 years ago, and after a few years left to be a full-time mother. When my youngest entered school, I came back to the UW to work towards a master's degree in linguistics. I returned to advising in September of 2006 and have been thrilled to discover the work to be even more rewarding than I remembered.

My special areas here in the Gateway Center are pre-medical and pre-dental advising, individualized studies advising and foreign language testing. I also serve on the graduation committee and the individualized studies committee.

Primary Advising Areas

Pre-medical and pre-dental; Individualized studies

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Other Activities

Foreign language proficiency testing; graduation committee; individualized studies committee

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As educators, advisers partner with faculty and the campus community to cultivate our students' intellectual development.

As guides and advocates, advisers collaborate with students to craft a transformative educational experience so that they may become informed, articulate and thoughtful students of the University and citizens of the world.

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