Talk:James Ashton/@comment-3563804-20180615012931/@comment-3452092-20180718045205

Well, where I'm from freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior are used for both high school and college/university (we have multiple of both within a fifteen mile radius of where I live). Sometimes you might hear "high school senior" and "college freshman", but most of the time you just hear "senior"and "freshman" and have to figure out if they mean high school or college by context. Often around graduation time you will hear things about "So and such is a senior at such and such high school. Next year they will be a freshman at such and such college."

Regardless Hartfeld is a college (technically a university, but I use the word college way more even if the biggest post high school institution around here is a university), so James is not currently hanging out around a high school. He's working at the college (university) he graduated from gaining experience in his field of study.

I understand that if you are from a place that does not use the terms like that this can be confusing. I will admit the idea that they aren't used for both sounds so strange to me, because that's what I have always known. I know there are place that call high school sophomores "grade ten" or something like that and it takes me a minute to realize what they are talking about because that's not the way I know things. One college I attended had freshman and upperclassmen, but only because everyone after their first year was on the same track and some people only stayed for one year.

Out of curiosity what do people around where you are call the various years in college/university? It sounds like where you are high school is called the same as here, but not universities, so I am interested to know what they call them there.