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  • adjective Before college.

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pre- +‎ collegiate

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Examples

  • This has been particularly true in New York, where SAT prep has become, for a certain caste of student, a kind of precollegiate arms race — and tutors are the mad scientists making the weapons.

    Tutorized! 2006

  • Members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.

    Rosenzweig Receives OAH Distinguished Service Award 2007

  • Members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.

    Center for History and New Media » 2007 » April 2007

  • Although precollegiate programs get the lion's share of education aid under the federal economic-stimulus package, states are expected to use a considerable chunk of the nearly $100 billion in aid to restore cuts to-and even invest in-higher education programs.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • Ms. Newman sees the more recent spate of shootings on college campuses as slightly different than the precollegiate incidents.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • The president and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have made clear that they view the economic-stimulus law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-with some $115 billion in aid for precollegiate and higher education-as a means to launch education plans from improvements in standards and data-collection systems to performance pay.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

  • Ms. Newman sees the more recent spate of shootings on college campuses as slightly different than the precollegiate incidents.

    Education Week American Education News Site of Record 2009

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