What name is given to a first year student at an American university
"long in disfavor in the United States. A rare high-profile American bearer of the name was Arabella Mansfield (née Babb) (1846-1911) the first female to pass a United States bar examination: Mansfield's birth name was Belle Aurelia Babb and she began utilizing Arabella as her first name in her first year of law school in 1862. Just ranking in the Top 1000 most given names for American newborn girls in the 1880s - the median ranking for the name Arabella from that decade's respective yearly tallies being #969 - the name Arabella became progressively rarer in the United States until"
"traditional names for the four years at university are Bejan (""Bejant"" at the University of St Andrews)(1st), Semi (2nd), Tertian (3rd) and Magistrand (4th), though all Scottish universities will have a ""freshers' week"" (as with all British universities) and the term is as widely used with more traditional terms. Freshman is commonly in use as a US English idiomatic term to describe a beginner or novice, someone who is naive, a first effort, instance, or a student in the first year of study (generally referring to high school or university study). New members of Congress in their first term are"
"colleges, do not use the term freshman but use first year, instead. Beyond the fourth year, students are simply classified as fifth year, sixth year, etc. Some institutions use the term freshman for specific reporting purposes. Freshman A freshman, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary or post-secondary school. In much of the Arab world, a first-year is called a ""Sanfoor"" (Pl. Sanaafir), which is Arabic for Smurf. In Brazil, students that pass the vestibulares and begin studying in a college or university are called ""calouros"" or more informally"
"Freshman A freshman, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary or post-secondary school. In much of the Arab world, a first-year is called a ""Sanfoor"" (Pl. Sanaafir), which is Arabic for Smurf. In Brazil, students that pass the vestibulares and begin studying in a college or university are called ""calouros"" or more informally ""bixos"" (""bixetes"" for girls), an alternate spelling of ""bicho"", which means ""animal"". Calouros are often subject to hazing, which is known as ""trote"" (lit. ""prank"") there. The first known hazing episode in Brazil happened 1831 at"
"Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors (respectively), unless their undergraduate program calls for more than the traditional 4 years. The first year of college or high school is referred to as Freshman year. A freshman (slang alternatives that are usually derogatory in nature include ""fish"", ""new-g"", ""fresher"", ""frosh"", ""newbie"", ""freshie"", ""snotter"", ""fresh-meat"", ""skippie"", etc.) is a first-year student in college, university or high school. In the U.S., a sophomore, also called a ""soph,"" is a second-year student. Outside the United States, the term Sophomore is rarely used, with second-year students simply called ""second years"". Folk etymology indicates that the word means ""wise"
"In Sweden, it is known as ""nollning"" (from ""nolla"", ""zero"", in this case meaning the students have not earned any credit points yet) or ""inspark"" (being ""kicked in"" to university life). Orientation week is the coming phrase in the United States. Some schools use the acronym WOW for Week of Welcome. In Canada, first-year students are called ""Frosh"" or ""first-years"". The terms ""freshies"" and ""freshers"" are also emerging. In the United States, first-year university students are typically referred to as freshmen. In Australia and New Zealand, first-year students are known simply as ""first-years"", although in some the colleges of the"
"is used informally to describe new students who are just beginning their first year. Although it is not unusual to call someone a fresher after their first few weeks at university, they are typically referred to as ""first years"" or ""first year students"". The ancient Scottish University of St Andrews uses the terms ""bejant"" for a first year (from the French """"bec-jaune"""" – ""yellow beak"", ""fledgling""). Second years are called ""semi-bejants"", third years are known as ""tertians"", and fourth years, or others in their final year of study, are called ""magistrands"". In England and Wales, primary school begins with an"
"referred to as ""freshmen senators"" or ""freshmen congressmen or congresswomen"", no matter how experienced they were in previous government positions. High school first year students are almost exclusively referred to as freshmen, or in some cases by their grade year, 9th graders. Second year students are sophomores, or 10th graders, then juniors or 11th graders, and finally seniors or 12th graders. At college or university, freshman denotes students in their first year of study. The grade designations of high school are not used, but the terms sophomore, junior, and senior are kept at most schools. Some colleges, including historically women's"
"Trinity College, Dublin under-graduate students are formally called ""junior freshmen"", ""senior freshmen"", ""junior sophister"" or ""senior sophister"", according to the year they have reached in the typical four year degree course. ""Sophister"" is another term for a sophomore, though the term is rarely used in other institutions and is largely limited to Trinity College Dublin. At university, the term ""fresher"" is used to describe new students who are just beginning their first year. The term, ""first year"" is the more commonly used and connotation-free term for students in their first year. The week at the start of a new year"
"affiliation. Freshman cadets are called ""fish"". The first year, the ""fish year"" is analogous to the experiences of the ""Rooks"" at Norwich University, ""Knobs"" at The Citadel, ""Rats"" of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, ""Rats"" at the Virginia Military Institute, ""Frogs"" at University of North Georgia, ""Doolies"" at the United States Air Force Academy, or ""Plebes"" at any of the other U.S. Federal Service Academies. A fish is easily recognized by the fact that the garrison cap (a.k.a. bider or biter) is plain and not embellished with any braid, or by the black cotton belt. The freshman biter is"
"that do not contain stripes, dressing long skirts for girls. Dress code ragging may make freshmen feel uncomfortable, as it often brings them unnecessary attention from everybody else. Verbal torture involves indulging in loose talks. The freshmen may be asked to sing the lyrics of any vulgar song or use abusive language in the presence of a large number of peers. During this time, seniors assign an abusive and demeaning nickname, known as ""card"" to the juniors and they have to be called by that name throughout their entire university life. In some universities, this nickname is changed to a"
"First-year composition First-year composition (sometimes known as freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in American colleges. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and professions. These courses are traditionally required of incoming students, thus the previous name, ""Freshman Composition"". Scholars working within the field of Composition-Rhetoric often have teaching First-year composition (FYC) courses as the practical focus of their scholarly work. FYC courses are structured in a variety of ways. Some institutions of higher education require only one term"
"University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney they are also called ""Freshers"". In the U.K. and Ireland first-year students are known as ""freshers"" or ""first-years"". ""Freshies"" is also an emerging term in New Zealand. In Sweden, the student is a ""nolla"" (a ""zero"") during the orientation period and usually upgraded to the status of an ""etta"" (student who is in her/his first college term) at a ceremony involving a fancy three-course dinner and a lots of singing. In Australia, some universities require students to arrive at university a week before classes start in order to gain course approval. This"
"universities have special names for the three terms, e.g. Michaelmas, Hilary, Trinity (Oxford) or Michaelmas, Epiphany, Easter (Durham). Special term names (i.e. not first, second, third; autumn, spring, summer; or other obvious names) in use include: Exceptions to the ordinary structure of the academic year include the University of Buckingham, where undergraduate courses do not coincide with the academic year used by universities in Britain and elsewhere. Instead, they largely coincide with the calendar year—they typically start in January or February, with examinations in autumn. There are a number of different systems used in the US: The word quadmester or"
"or colloquially ""Ersties"" (""firsties""). Different terms for school students exist, depending on which kind of school is attended by the student. The general term for a person going to school is ""Schüler"" or ""Schülerin"". They begin their first four years in primary school or ""Volksschule"". They then graduate to a secondary school called ""Gymnasium"", which is a university preparatory school. Students attending this school are called ""Gymnasiasten"", while those attending other schools are called ""Hauptschüler"" or ""Realschüler"". Students who graduate with the Abitur are called ""Abiturienten"". The abbreviation stud. + the abbreviation of the faculty p. e. phil. for ""philosophiae"""
"first-, second-, third-, and fourth-years in order to reflect Jefferson's belief that learning is a lifelong process, rather than one to be completed within four years. Professors are traditionally addressed as ""Mr."" or ""Ms."" at UVA instead of ""Doctor"" (although medical doctors are the exception) in deference to Jefferson's desire to have an equality of ideas, discriminated by merit and unburdened by title. UVA facilitates close interactions between students and professors in a number of ways. First-year students in the College of Arts & Sciences have the opportunity to take two University Seminars, one per semester, which are later made"
"school of a similar level, that is to say pupils in a cursus reserved to people already owning a Baccalauréat. The general term for a person going to primary or secondary school is ""élève"". In some French higher education establishments, a ""bleu"" or ""bizuth"" is a first-year student. Second-year students are sometimes called ""carrés"" (squares). Some other terms may apply in specific schools, some depending on the classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles attended. In Germany, the German cognate term ""Student"" (male) or ""Studentin"" (female) is reserved for those attending a university. University students in their first year are called ""Erstsemester"""
"as the preferred nomenclature. Lasting between a few days and a week, the orientation is these students' informal introduction and inauguration to the institution. Typically, the first-year students are led by fellow students from upper years over the course of the week through various events ranging from campus tours, games, competitions, and field trips. At smaller liberal arts colleges, the faculty may also play a central role in orientation. In many colleges, incoming freshmen are made to perform activities such as singing of songs, engaging in group physical activities, and playing games. These activities are often done to help freshmen"
"their interest (not major) when they are accepted to the university and are required to take two courses in their first year, one per semester, pertaining to their undergraduate college placement. These courses are generally known as FYS 101 and FYS 102 (FYS standing for First Year Seminar), but are specific to each college, with each section replacing FYS with the three letter college abbreviation (Example: a Global Studies student would take GLS 101, a Human Development student would take HDV 101, etc...). The 101 course for each UGC is a 1 credit course that is typically 15 to 20"
"The aim is to lower the rate of sexually transmitted disease and to reduce the level of intoxication commonly witnessed in Freshers' Week. Freshers' Flu is a predominately British term which describes the increased rates of illness during the first few weeks of university. Although called ""Freshers' Flu"", it is often not a flu at all. ""Freshmen"" is the traditional term for first-year students arriving at school in the United States, but the slang term 'frosh' is also used. Due to the perceived gender exclusiveness of the term, some institutions including the University of North Carolina have adopted ""first-year student"""
"is called ""Freshers' Week"" or ""Welcome Week"", with a programme of special events to welcome new students. An undergraduate in the last year of study before graduation is generally known as a ""finalist."" In Italian, a ""matricola"" is a first-year student. Some other terms may apply in specific schools, some depending on the liceo classico or liceo scientifico attended. According to the goliardic initiation traditions the grades granted (following approximately the year of enrollment at university) are: ""matricola"" (freshman), ""fagiolo"" (sophomore), ""colonna"" (junior), and ""anziano"" (senior), but most of the distinctions are rarely used outside Goliardia. In Sweden, only those"
"the Junior and Middle Common Rooms whose periods of study have come to an end. This is different from the practice at other colleges that maintain a register (now a minority of colleges), where the signing takes place at the beginning of a student's course. A tradition from the nineteenth century, which is now somewhat forgotten (despite having been common even in the early years of the twenty-first century) was that first-year students of the college are called 'monarchs' and their elder colleagues are known as 'regents'. This was to remind older students that they had a duty of care"
"for college years); in Canada, the specific levels are used instead (i.e., ""grade nine""). As for higher education, only the term ""freshman"" (often reduced to ""frosh"") has some currency in Canada. The American usages ""sophomore"", ""junior"" and ""senior"" are not used in Canadian university terminology, or in speech. The specific high-school grades and university years are therefore stated and individualized; for example, ""the grade 12s failed to graduate""; ""John is in his second year at McMaster"". The ""first year"", ""third year"" designation also applies to Canadian law school students, as opposed to the common American usage of ""1L"", ""2L"" and"
"in American high schools, EEPsters in their first year at EEP are referred to as ""Freshmen"", or more commonly, continue to be referred to as Provies, second year as ""Sophomores"", third year as ""Juniors"", and fourth year and above as ""Seniors"" or ""Elders"". Although EEP is designed to be a five-year program, some students stay in EEP more than or less than five years to earn their degree. After three years students are promoted to the status of Elders which may be equated to the upperclassman of high school environments. EEPsters are an eclectic (and eccentric) group of adolescents, and"
"worn with a deep tuck in the back, which forms a ""peak"" reminiscent of a fish tail, and first-semester freshmen wear brass ""A.M.U."" devices on their lapels, rather than the Corps insignia or band lyre worn by upperclassmen. Freshmen and sophomores are also required to wear metal taps on the heels of their shoes; this facilitates marching in step. In addition, male fish must maintain an extremely short hairstyle known colloquially as a ""fish cut."" Corps ""fish"" are not known by their first name and the term ""fish"" is applied in its stead. In this use, the word ""fish"" is"
"adopt the changing patterns in the world and have started calling their 'PG students' as 'residents' (or as ""junior residents"") but they still pay them stipend and not a salary besides collecting tuition fees. Also note that in the United States, a first-year resident (c.f.: 1st year PG student, in India) is called an ""intern"". This is because the American medical students do not undergo the Indian type of CRRI rotation in a hospital at the end of their medical school (c.f.: called a medical college, in India). However, the American counterpart during the last two years of medical school"
"rhetorical aspects of the writing process. First-year composition First-year composition (sometimes known as freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in American colleges. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and professions. These courses are traditionally required of incoming students, thus the previous name, ""Freshman Composition"". Scholars working within the field of Composition-Rhetoric often have teaching First-year composition (FYC) courses as the practical focus of their scholarly work. FYC courses are structured in a variety of ways. Some institutions of"
"in each of these universities in order to implement the numerus clausus. First year consists mainly of theoretical classes such as biophysics and biochemistry, anatomy, ethics or histology. Passing first year is commonly considered as challenging and requires hard and continuous work. Each student can only try twice. For example, the Université René Descartes welcomes about 2000 students in first year and only 300 after numerus clausus. The second and third year are usually mainly quite theoretical although the teachings are often accompanied by placements in the field (e.g. internships as nurses or in the emergency room, depending on the"
"often say ""primary one"", ""primary two"" (a direct translation from the French), and so on; while Anglophones will say ""grade one"", ""grade two"". (Compare American ""first grade, second grade"" (sporadically found in Canada), and English/Welsh ""Year 1, Year 2"", Scottish/Nth.Irish ""Primary 1, Primary 2"" or ""P1, P2"", and Sth.Irish ""First Class, Second Class"" and so on.). The year of school before grade 1 is usually called ""Kindergarten"", with the exception of Nova Scotia, where it is called ""grade primary"". In the U.S., the four years of high school are termed the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years (terms also used"
"and universities, which were usually headed by a ""president."" British universities were headed by an official called the ""Chancellor"" (typically a ceremonial position) while the chief administrator held the title of ""Vice-Chancellor"". But America's first institutions of higher learning (such as Harvard University and Yale University) didn't resemble a full-sized university so much as one of its constituent colleges. A number of colleges at Cambridge University featured an official called the ""president"". The head, for instance, of Magdalene College, Cambridge was called the ""master"" and his second the ""president."" The first president of Harvard, Henry Dunster, had been educated at"
"The first eight are solely referred to by numbers (e.g. 1st grade, 5th grade) so students may be referred to as 1st graders, 5th graders, then once in middle school before high school you are ratio referred to as 6th, 7th, 8th graders. Upon entering high school, grades 9 through 12 (high school) also have alternate names for students, namely freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. The actual divisions of which grade levels belong to which division (whether elementary, middle, junior high or high school) is a matter decided by state or local jurisdictions. Accordingly, college students are often called Freshmen,"
"a university is having, in addition, one or more graduate schools engaged in both teaching graduate classes and in research. Often these would be called a School of Law or School of Medicine, (but may also be called a college of law, or a faculty of law). An exception is Vincennes University, Indiana, which is styled and chartered as a ""university"" even though almost all of its academic programs lead only to two-year associate degrees. Some institutions, such as Dartmouth College and The College of William & Mary, have retained the term ""college"" in their names for historical reasons. In"
"a term used to refer to first year male students; females being described as Bejantines. Second-year students are known as a Semis, a student in their third year may be referred to as a Tertian, and in their final year as a Magistrand. These terms are thought to be unique to St Andrews. When wearing their traditional red gowns, students in each year may be identified according to the way they wear their gowns. In the first year, the gown is worn on the shoulders, in the second year it is worn slightly off the shoulders. In the third year"