<p>So I'm a 2nd yr COE student, senior standing, taking 4 300+ engineering class, is it wrong to say that I'm a junior? (I basically told recruiters that I'm a junior, graduating in dec 2012, but I felt a lil guilty even though thats true)
I'm hesitant to say I'm a sophomore or 2nd year because it'd put me at a disadvantage when it comes to internships. </p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>It really depends. From the looks of it (your 300+ classes), you can be considered an “academic junior.” BUT that’s because I don’t know how many credits you have. Count the number of credits you have total (APs and classes you have taken) and see if you have achieved/crossed the minimum number of credits to be a junior (usually that is probably over 60 when you started college this fall assuming that the required number of credit hours to graduate is 120-a typical number but engineering tends to be higher-i.e. BME w/ 128). If you have achieved that, you can consider yourself an academic junior, even if you are only in your second year. WHY? Because technically UMich counts graduation based on how many credit hours you have. Many of my friends who are graduating this year got requests to graduate when they were finishing their Junior Year or at the beginning of their Senior years. This is because they technically had enough credits to graduate, but did not fulfill their major requirement (application for graduation does not technically look at if you fulfilled your major requirement, it looks at the number of credits cause on of my friends got a email telling her to apply for graduation and she didn’t complete her major requirement yet). There are many bright “freshman” students who are technically considered academic sophomores because they came in with enough AP/IB/College credits to be considered capable of graduating in 3 year, depending on their major. So really it depends on how much credits you have. Good Luck!</p>
<p>I’d say I’m a Jr,</p>
<p>This year though, my first year, I technically have enough credits to be a sophomore. I say I’m “first year” though. Whenever I hear a freshman say he’s a sophomore just because he has enough credits it sounds stuck up.</p>
<p>I have completed 86 credits which puts me at senior standing.
MLD I get what you’re saying(i too get annoy by those who say "technically i’m a junior, but im a 2nd yr yada yada).
I usually say I’m a 2nd year, but I wanna get an edge when it comes to internships and and co-ops.</p>
<p>I doubt there’s much of a difference between saying you are graduating in winter 2012 v. spring 2013. Plenty of students manage to graduate in 3.5 years anyway. You might get in trouble if you said you were graduating in spring 2012 and weren’t planning on doing so, since they might want to reserve internships for kids who can go back full time the following summer…</p>
<p>yeah, your situation is different. You want to look as good as possible</p>
<p>but in social groups it just sounds stuck up</p>
<p>You aren’t lying unless you lie about your graduation date. I know someone who was misleading about their grad date and got away with it, but be careful about that. The Jeff Chiang incident has influenced me to never want to lie about anything in the professional world (granted, Chiang’s gaff was much more extreme… lied to Morgan Stanley about having an offer with B of A).</p>