prospective

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Cal State L.A. will receive $48 million to add more students to its master of social work programs and provide more than 1,000 scholarships and grants for prospective students.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

On a notebook on her coffee table, she wrote Cynthia Renee Ortiz, doodling hearts around her prospective married name.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

May, 49, got his start as a head coach at Florida Atlantic University—a school with such shoddy basketball resources that he tried to avoid showing prospective recruits the locker room, or its lukewarm showers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

After meeting prospective surrogate Annie Peverelle at an earlier Surrogacy UK event, they got to know each other and Peverelle offered to carry the couple's baby for them.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Each had two or three people manning a table, many of them lost in conversations with prospective students.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro