matriculate
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More than half of high-school grads matriculate to college, even though only 35% of 12th graders score proficient in reading and 22% in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
While it will take a little time for the students to matriculate through college and into the workforce, this plan will be a significant contributor to solving the controller shortage problem.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
I need it to matriculate into the master's programme I was accepted into at Columbia.
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
Groban was accepted to Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious music theater program, but his burgeoning singing career didn’t allow him to matriculate for long.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023
I spent last summer studying at Harvard University, and in September I'll matriculate at Yale University.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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The captivating ecclesiastical drama “Servants,” set in 1980s Czechoslovakia, follows teenage matriculates at a Christian seminary who awaken to a grim reality.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
“All American’s” Geffri Maya matriculates at a historically Black university in Atlanta in the new spinoff “All American: Homecoming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seemed mystified as to why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would want to wrestle with government funding issues when she matriculates to the speaker’s suite in January.
From Fox News ● Dec. 19, 2018
An NBA rule forbidding teams to sign a college player until three years after he matriculates would lessen universities’ importance as incubators of NBA talent.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2017
We have 107 matriculates and expect 20 more.
From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
By far the biggest factor in admission, however, is whether an applicant has matriculated from another magnet school and how long an applicant has been on the waiting list for a magnet school.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
Since it was founded in 1948, the school has matriculated over 5,000 students, who also auction everything from real estate to farm equipment to fine art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
If you’re one of the 15,977 Whitman alums who matriculated “geodesically” — that is, during the time the dome stood — you’re invited to attend.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
After all, he started for two seasons at national behemoth Santa Ana Mater Dei High and matriculated his way directly into the greatest college football dynasty of all time in Tuscaloosa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Francie wondered, if it was so good, why he hadn’t matriculated there instead of at the university of another midwestern state.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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The total number of black and Hispanic students matriculating at law schools has risen more than 5% over the past two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Gore was the top pitching prospect in baseball in 2019, while Abrams was the No. 9 prospect on MLB.com earlier this year before matriculating to the big leagues.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
The junior-senior high school where he’d be matriculating had harbored several COVID-19 outbreaks among older students during the previous school year.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021
If I had a college-age son with a talent for football, he would not be matriculating at WSU.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
It is also possible that Father Zimmermann caused you to stop matriculating for the reason perhaps that your convent lacks funds to pay the tuition.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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