finalist vs pregraduate

finalist

noun
  • A university student in their final year of study. 

  • A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study). 

  • Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 

pregraduate

noun
  • A person who is taking an academic course but has not yet graduated. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to those studies that take place before a student completes a degree course. 

How often have the words finalist and pregraduate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )