matriculate

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

Technically, apprentices were supposed to start their work at age twelve and gradually matriculate into higher roles, but Kamau—ever charming, ever likable—had appealed to Father Olufemi.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Before she matriculates to his first year of university at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is obligated to live out her mother’s final wish for her.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 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

Apparently it should not be difficult to take the lists of the matriculates as far as they have been preserved and by a little calculation obtain rather exact figures.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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

Unlike other Bachelor Nation alumni, Thurston has not matriculated through the franchise much since her season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Until she matriculated at Wisconsin, she didn’t realize that her teammates might never have shared a meal with an Indigenous person.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022

I suppose having matriculated to my nineteenth year has provided me with a depth of insight which I am only beginning to excavate.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

The Seahawks were driving toward a touchdown that would have pulled them within one score, but instead Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce promptly did their thing, matriculating down the field for a put-away Chiefs score.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2022

I object to the current program because I worked full time while matriculating at a low-cost college and put myself through school entirely on my own dime.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

“I’ll be matriculating soon, and I need to at least have an idea about what lies ahead.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane