#candidate

• Applicant — A person who candidates, requests, or submits a formal application to obtain a job, a scholarship, a diplomatic visa, a non-repayable funding, or admission into an educational institution. Contextually used also as an adjective, it describes an entity or subject in the official process of registering or structurally requesting a right before an evaluation committee.
• Female applicant — A female person who candidates, requests, or submits a formal application to obtain a job, a scholarship, a funding, or admission into an institution. It represents the female subject undergoing structural evaluation before a recruitment committee or a public authority.
• Aspirant — A person who aspires, covets, or aims to obtain a position, an office, a title, a dignity, or a higher social or professional status; in a naval military context, it represents the lowest officer rank in the navy, equivalent to a second lieutenant in the army. As an adjective, it describes an element or a person demonstrating a strong desire for advancement.
• Aspirant — The feminine form of the word 'aspirant'; a woman or female person who aims, covets, or applies to obtain a title, a professional position, a distinction, or a high social status; as an adjective, it describes a female entity in an active process of competition or advancement.
• Aspirantura — A higher form of organizing postgraduate university studies historically used in the former Soviet bloc and certain East European academic institutions, structurally equivalent to the modern doctorate; a scientific training stage completed by an aspirant under a professor's guidance to obtain the candidate of sciences degree.