college-preparatory

[kol-ij-pri-pair-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

1. preparing a student for academic work at the college level.

Example Sentences

The number of Latino graduates from California high schools who met UC admission requirements — a 3.0 GPA and completion of a series of college-preparatory classes with at least a C grade — grew to 108,145 in 2023-24 from 87,275 in 2016-17, according to state Department of Education data.

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Following her graduation from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Md., a college-preparatory school for girls with an emphasis on the arts, MacRae decided to seriously pursue acting in 1956.

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Jennifer Nazario is a systems administrator at a network of college-preparatory schools and a first-generation college graduate with a master’s degree in economics.

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The Abbey called the police, and a college-preparatory school connected to the church went into lockdown as officials investigated.

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He was admitted to Stuyvesant High School, a public but competitive college-preparatory school in Manhattan, where he joined the archaeology club.

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