Are you applying as a matriculant?

申请过程中出现的一个必答问题，请问有谁知道这什么意思？

 matriculant和non-matriculant相比较，前者是指可以拿到学位，后者指仅仅参

加课程培训吧？

This is a very strange question.  In order to be a matriculant, you

must first apply, be offered admission, and then formally accept the offer

and register for classes.  So for an application for to ask if you are

"applying as a matriculant" is pretty confusing, even to a native speaker

of English like me.  There are two explanations I can think of:

1. They are asking if you are currently, or were formerly, a student at

their university.  For example, if you are currently studying an MS in

Finance at the same university where you are applying for an MBA, you

could say you are applying for an MBA as a matriculant. 

2. In some old universities they have special definitions of "matriculant"

that are not used elsewhere. For instance there are some Canadian

universities where "matriculant" means you are taking courses for credit

and "non-matriculant" means you are only auditing.  Your second post

sounds like this might be the case.