postulant

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

A candidate for admission into a religious order.

One who or that which postulates, demands, or asks; specifically, a candidate for membership in a religious order during the period preparatory to his admission into the novitiate; in the American Episcopal Church, an applicant for admission to candidateship for the ministry, not yet received as candidate.

One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.

A person seeking admission to a religious order

A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.

one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order