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It managed to be simultaneously sharp and self-lacerating and generous and agreeable, a postcollegiate picaresque whose selfish hero was winningly cleareyed and disarmingly candid about his own shortcomings.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

This was an epochal moment for women’s basketball: For the first time, the Olympic team was composed of the best postcollegiate basketball players, selected more than a year before the Games.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

This focus is in part because law school rankings take into account undergraduate GPA, and do not take into account GPAs from any postcollegiate work.

From US News • Nov. 17, 2014

“He still maintained a postcollegiate lifestyle,” Steve O’Donnell said.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2012

The central characters in this Second Stage Theater production, three postcollegiate young women and the two young men they pick up, are observed with equal parts savagery and sympathy.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2010