undergrad
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An undergrad became a magazine staff writer and received a free ride to Columbia’s MFA program.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Unlike many peer institutions, the school doesn’t charge incoming students an enrollment deposit—if you say you are coming, they believe you, said Ashley Pallie, Caltech’s dean of undergrad admissions who helped conceive the fraud squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Curry was an undergrad at the University of Texas at Arlington and a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Sotomayor has long been an advocate for criminal defendants in her jurisprudence, and for her part, Jackson’s thesis in undergrad even covered coercive plea bargaining.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
“When I was babysitting in undergrad, one day I heard myself telling the kid I was babysitting, ‘You’re such a trouper!’
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My undergrads are rightly fearful about the climate crisis but working in community to find their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Minister for Skills Jacqui Smith said it was important that prospective undergrads "choose carefully".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Thirty-eight percent of Stanford University undergrads identify as disabled—that’s according to records from Stanford’s own Office of Accessible Education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
He already had colleagues, grad students and brilliant undergrads as collaborators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
So, because he had been fond of her, he was glad to listen to Strangeways, even when he related her newer conquests over more recent undergrads, and her later romantic history.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson
