finalist vs scholar

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. 

scholar

noun
  • A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship. 

  • A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge. 

  • someone who received a prestigious scholarship 

  • A learned person; a bookman. 

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