undergrad

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In 1970, during her last semester of undergrad, Leath married Ed Dossett, whom she met at East Tennessee State before he moved on to law school.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

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

“I remember being an undergrad looking for more plays and Wikipedia-ing the Pulitzers for a reading list,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Unlike me, he’d worked for several years after finishing his undergrad degree at Columbia before moving on to law school.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama