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
She had enjoyed the summer school so much that she wanted to matriculate in the same college that fall but she had no way of raising the more than three hundred dollars required for tuition.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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“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
On the afternoon of Jan. 27, 2015, Dasani matriculates and heads to her new home, accompanied by her mother and sisters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
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
A man matriculates at a university and completes his course there: to change even from one college to another is becoming almost unknown.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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
The Emmy-winning ABC sitcom mockumentary has recently matriculated for a third season and already been renewed for a fourth.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
The first class of new undergraduates to include women matriculated in 1972.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
They’ve sent him to a decent school; maybe he’s even matriculated.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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After all, we’re on a planet where the city of Rome has been continually inhabited for 2,700 years, and the University of Bologna has been matriculating students for 938.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
“Basically, fall of 2021 saw Indian students from two consecutive application years matriculating at the same time.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Note: Hyde will return as Orioles manager in 2022, a season in which many of the organization's top prospects should begin matriculating to the majors, according to a person with direct knowledge of the agreement.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 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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