<p>Maybe it's just the word, but anymore everybody posts "my RISING s or d",
Rising compared to what? Were they F students and now are getting college entry grades? Are they like a loaf of bread? </p>
<p>My wild guess would be that your kids are pretty smart with or without the "Rise" in front of their gender. By "rising" do you really just mean getting to college age?</p>
<p>I'm sorry to rant a bit, but boy, I want to nip this in the bud. Rising means they are moving up from where they were. Now, honestly I'm sure that's not the case. I'm sure your kids are pretty smart now and they were last year too. (Can't wait for the rebuke.. "no opie... my rising son was the village idiot last year, now he's the fire marshall.) </p>
<p>Sorry. Feel free to yell at me for accusing your kids of being smart last year and this year and next year..;) </p>
<p>Again sorry, but I've just read five separate posts that start with my rising...</p>
<p>You'll only hear people refer to "rising" during the summer when students are between grades. "My rising junior" just means that my kid is going into his junior year.</p>
<p>I saw "rising" used in our local school district's letter... "rising" junior, "rising" senior. It was referring to kids placements in the summer between school years. I had no idea it referred to grades, etc.</p>
<p>For instance: my son is a rising senior because in Sept, he will be a senior, but not until school starts. He is no longer a junior.</p>
<p>Different parts of the country I guess. I have never seen the term used in my neck of the woods. Up here it goes "he'll be a senior this year" or "she'll be a junior". So my apologies to those who use the term "rising" when describing moving up a grade level. Still has too many meanings for my tastes, but hey.</p>
<p>I never heard of "rising" until I started reading CC. But I think here it ONLY refers to someone who is about to be in that given class and is not any sort of comment on grades</p>
<p>At S's high school sophomores were referred to as "lowers" and juniors were called "uppers". It got really confusing when they talked about rising lowers.</p>
<p>I always wondered what happened if you were a sinking upper? :confused:</p>
<p>I never thought of it as any other connotation except to be the term used for students during the summer when they are not in any grade/year. For instance, as soon as school gets out in June, and you are a freshman, it is awkward to begin saying, "I'm a sophomore." So, during the transitional summer, many refer to themselves as "rising 'the next grade'." I refer to my own children, if people ask what year of college they are, as a rising junior and a rising senior (at present, over the summer), because they are not yet in those grades. I never realized anyone would ever think it meant anything else.</p>
<p>I remember reading one of the Ramona books about how Ramona was in a phase of being very precise, and didn't like being asked what grade she was in during the summer because she wasn't currently in a grade.</p>
<p>I use the term, but in college I'm not sure how much sense it makes. I was a senior as soon as I completed enough credits to become a senior. It has nothing to do with when classes start. Still, the mental model for what grade you're in is Aug (or Sept) to May (or June), so the clarification doesn't hurt.</p>
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I don't think that distinction is true for every school. My college of course has graduation requirements, major requirements, and requirements to be considered a full time student, but I have never heard people at my school speak about their college year in relation to number of courses unless they were planning on graduating early or late.</p>
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I don't think that distinction is true for every school. My college of course has graduation requirements, major requirements, and requirements to be considered a full time student, but I have never heard people at my school speak about their college year in relation to number of courses unless they were planning on graduating early or late.
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<p>Well, even at my school we don't really talk about what grade we're in based on the number of credits we've taken, but if I log into our student information system, it tells me what grade level I am based on how many credits I've completed. And since credits are completed in May...</p>
<p>Come to think of it, my high school had a similar thing in the handbook about how students with more than x but fewer than y credits were sophomores etc, but we certainly never talked about it that way or even thought much about how many credits we were taking since we all had to take 7 classes every semester.</p>
<p>beck, but are you really a senior when you accumulate enough hours to be a senior? I'm really asking . My D is a junior by hours if you count them up, but she won't "use" all of them. So what is she? She certainly called herself a "first-year" even though she had sophomore hours (heck had she gone to our state schools - junior hours). She says she is a sophomore now and she plans on being there 4 years (8 full semesters) .</p>
<p>As someone who never once graduated at the appropriate time (H.S.) or at all (college) I never knew what I was. I did however distinctly know when I was a Graduating Senior in Law School, a phrase referring not to year but quarter . And more importantly then that - by tradition a GS could use that status on a final exam in some courses by writing "GS" in bold letters across the front to get a "gentle(person)'s hook". A "C". A tradition I proudly took part in.</p>
<p>Ha ha, -- Funny image in my head now, of students puffing up like bread dough over the summer . . .</p>
<p>I think I first say the term <em>rising</em> junior or senior a few years ago in mailings that colleges sent out for summer programs for rising juniors or seniors. I admit it took me a while to figure out what was meant by that. It is less cumbersome than saying <em>those who will be seniors or juniors this fall,</em> I guess. It does sound sort of prep schoolish, I suppose.</p>
<p>I think, Opie, the connotations are really only in your head. Even after hearing your purported meaning, it didn't resonate to me as a plausible alternate. I heard it here first, but I didn't attach any meaning till I'd contexted the correct one.</p>
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beck, but are you really a senior when you accumulate enough hours to be a senior? I'm really asking . My D is a junior by hours if you count them up, but she won't "use" all of them. So what is she? She certainly called herself a "first-year" even though she had sophomore hours (heck had she gone to our state schools - junior hours).
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<p>Well, my school doesn't let us use APs etc. for credit which simplifies the calculation somewhat (and we have to be there 4 years because there's a yearlong senior required class). The kids for whom the answer is complicated usually give a more detailed explanation (something like 'I would have been a senior this year but I took a year to do x so I'll graduate with '09 instead'). But our grade level in the system is determined by how many credits we've completed.</p>