<p>Like how do you define yourself as Freshman, Sophomore, Junior or Senior?
By credits or by the number of years you've been in secondary education? What if you transferred colleges? Are you a freshman because you're new to the college or something else because of previously taking college courses?</p>
<p>I’m a freshman, but also technically a sophomore since I’m going to finish undergrad in three years.</p>
<p>It’s by year in school. Not number of credits. Only freshmen ever go, “It’s my first year but I’m technically a sophomore because of how many credits I have.” It’s annoying and no one cares. Transferring doesn’t matter either…but after senior year one becomes a super senior.</p>
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<p>It really is a pain because by credits I’m a junior but by time I’m a sophomore entering his second semester. It sucks because I have enough credits to be considered a junior but I can’t get most summer internships meant for rising seniors because technically I’ll be a rising second semester junior.</p>
<p>Just a sophomore, about to transfer:)</p>
<p>It depends. When I was a “freshmen” I had junior standing and I was a “senior” by my 2nd year. I had a few classes my first year that were ONLY open to juniors/seniors. In those classes, I would say I was a junior/senior because the one time I slipped up and said I was a freshmen, I got a few very strange glances and had to talk to the prof afterwards haha. </p>
<p>But generally, I just say I’m a third year now.</p>
<p>Why are you still there if you already came in with 60 (or whatever the minimum for junior standing is at your school) credits?</p>
<p>I’m a senior by credit standing, but a junior by year. It helps me out with housing selection and registration.</p>
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<p>Yeah, juniors usually say something like, “It’s my third year but I’m technically a senior because of how many credits I have.”</p>
<p>I’m a junior transfer (to-be) because even though I have more than 90 semester units, all those units are from my CC.</p>
<p>ThisMortal- I’m here essentially with very little debt so I have no incentive to finish early plus I’m getting a BA and a BS and the requirements for those and my minor took four years because of sequence issues. And honestly, what’s the rush to graduate early in this economy? I’m racking up good relationships with professors who will write good recommendations, an internship, study abroad, good work experience, and a nice paying job that I have as long as I’m an undergrad.</p>
<p>Besides, a lot of my AP credits didn’t apply to any of my programs.</p>
<p>I’m a first-year student with sophomore standing. Check your school’s catalog; class standing is a function of credit hours. A lot of students were embarrassed this year because they took the minimum full-time load (12+12) and returned for their third semester still freshmen.</p>
<p>At my undergraduate college almost everybody graduated in exactly 8 semesters. Since many traditions were tied to our year of matriculation, most students classified themselves by their year in college. (Fifth year students were called “super seniors”; students who graduated a full year early usually ‘skipped’ their junior year.)</p>
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<p>In some cases, there may be “class standing” by credits and “class level” by semesters or years.</p>
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<p>I would say credits. I know people who have been in college 6 years or so. I just considered it a different status every 30 credits.</p>
<p>Either by year of entry (if you are on track for 4 or more years) or by graduation year (if you will graduate early). Telling everyone you meet how many AP credits you have is pretentious.</p>
<p>I was also wondering how colleges determined this as well. I want to live off campus without a mealplan. My university allows off campus housing for non freshman, which is no prob. But to not have a meal plan you need to be a junior and not reside on campus. So im trying to figure out how it typically goes with most universities since I havent seen anything on my school’s site and unsure of what department to contact.</p>
<p>Well the other day in class the professor pulled up the section roster and next to everyone’s name it showed your standing. Next to my name was “JR.” So I think I’ll just start saying I’m a junior. I agree the AP credit thing is pretentious, but then again for me they satisfied my history requirement, lower level english requirement and an elective… so it’s actually all going towards my degree rather than being “fluff” credits.</p>
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