undergrad

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I had gone to college — undergrad was free on a Pell Grant for low-income students — but borrowed money for graduate school.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Among its residents: the mother, father, grandmother and grandfather of an ASU undergrad.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

As an undergrad, I’d dabbled in investing but sold my shares too quickly for the gains to be significant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Then in 2006, I was an undergrad at the University of North Texas, and I got a Hispanic Scholarship Award.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

For Lexie, the precedent was not quite so clear: her mother had grown up in Shaker and had never gone far—just down to Denison for her undergrad before boomeranging back.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng