Let's say you are in a 5-year college program. First year, you are "freshman." Second, "sophomore." Now, I assume people often refer to the 4th year as "junior" and fifth year as "senior," no? Or 3rd year as "junior"? If not, what do people often refer to 3rd year as?

I often just say "3rd year" as I usually refer to numbers for years.

Or are 5 year programs quite unusual for this?

2nd year senior

in my highschool, 5th year students got labeled super seniors. >_>

It's okay Greenboy, names will never hurt you!

As I remember from orientation:
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Super Senior
Super Duper Senior (6th year and on...add another "Duper" for each additional year)

I also know it as "super senior" for the 5th year, although since so many programs at RIT are five years, most people just go by year numbers.

cool.

i graduated after 4 years on the honor roll though. taking slacker classes is an awesome way to get good grades with little work. >_>

3rd year *** spelunker.

Yeah, we call em super seniors at Penn too.

Echoman are you in a 5 year M.Arch? We just use 2nd year, 3rd year, etc, because it's a bit easier to keep track of level that way.

It's actually based on the number of credits that you have earned, not how many years you have been there. How can you people who have been through college not know this?

We say Freshman, then after that 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th.

Probably cause people realize after their first year that not everyone has a 4 year program.

American terminology is usually pretty dumb to be honest

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Most people just go by the year number at GT. They might say "super senior" if they are making fun of themselves.

I'm in a five years master's program and we just call fifth years students grad. students.

Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Middler
Senior

Thats what they call it at my school...

freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, 5th year

It's easier than saying "60 credit 'er", and that's how the school themselves (at least RIT) labels them anyway.

B.Arch. The I'm planning to go to graduate school for M.Arch.

We seriously go by "year" and not credit -- as in, whatever your original expected graduation year was (based on a 4-year program from when you started), you subtract or add years. So if you're class of 2011, then in 2012 you'd be a super senior and in 2009 you'd be a junior, and so on. (Actually I guess it's more accurate to say we go by "2 semesters")

The credit system at penn is basically 1 credit per course and the requirements are so different for each school / major / concentration whatnot that nobody would understand each other if they referred to each other by credit. E.g. saying "I'm a 24 credit"er means that you've taken 24 classes which means .. uhh... assuming you took 4 classes per semester ... youve been there six semesters ... which probably means three years ... so you're a rising senior? But wait no actually you're in a joint degree program and have been taking 7 classes a semester which means you've only been here for four semesters so you're actually a rising junior.

No, it's more like this;

Say I'm in my 3rd year of college. I have only completed 2 semester's worth of credits for whatever reason. This would make me a sophomore, not a junior.

I'm not arguing that "Super Senior" or "Middler" are incorrect, or that they shouldn't be used. This is actually how most universities classify it, despite the jargon used by students.

Most people simply say their most approximate title based on the years because other people don't care that you are a 3rd year but you have really completed one hour less than what you should have to officially be a junior in a 4 year degree program.

If someone actually wants to know how many hours you have they can ask that. The question, "What year are you?" is really just to get a general idea of where someone is in their college degree.

Which is more accurately represented using my method. The question was about terminology, and as far as the university is concerned, for the most part, it is based on the number of credit hours.

And I should also add that if someone asks you, "What year are you?" they are asking you which of the referential terms applies to you. When you answer, "Junior," they are not going to be able to infer "I am in my fourth year, but I only have 78 credits." It's just not going to happen.

So you'd only be a second year. I fail to see where your problem is.

... Thank you for saying the exact same thing as me, only replacing "sophomore" with "second year."

We just go by years in Canada, if you said something like sophomore a lot of people probably wouldn't know what you meant (unless they gleaned it from film/television or American friends).