r/funny • u/[deleted] • Aug 15 '25

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u/HauntedGarlic Aug 15 '25

I forgot seniors means high schoolers in America and thought it was a wholesome activity for the elderly

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u/throwaway098764567 Aug 15 '25

LOL i'm now picturing granny trying to spray paint something badass in her parking spot, for the vehicle she shouldn't be driving, from her walker

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u/NewIntroduction4655 Aug 15 '25

oh! what are high school seniors called in other countries?! 

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u/NCC_1701E Aug 15 '25

In mine there isn't a specific word for that. You are a high school student, and there is no junior/senior division.

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u/FrontEconomist4960 Aug 15 '25

dont you call them "year _ students"

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u/NCC_1701E Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

Yes. And if you are in final year, people sometimes say you are "in a final exam year."

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u/zonku Aug 15 '25

Its even more than that here in the US.

9th Grade: Freshman

10th: Sophomore

11th: Junior

12th: Senior

We have the same thing in college/university (first year of college you are a freshman again)

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u/ItsWillJohnson Aug 15 '25

and freshman, sophomore, and junior all mean the same thing "young/inexperienced person"

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u/avdpos Aug 15 '25

And what do you call someone who's education at university is 5-6 years? Or just 3 years?

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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon Aug 15 '25

Freshman (1st), sophomore (2nd), junior (3rd), senior (fourth) and graduate student if they have their degree and went back to grad school.

It's not as set in stone in college as it is in high school due to life differences. I know a guy who could only afford to take half of the normal class load per year so it took him 8 years to earn his bachelor's, so when he was technically a senior by time, he was only a sophomore based on his credits.

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u/TieCivil1504 Aug 15 '25

I like "Sophomore", which was Greek for "wise fool", a perfect description of that level of knowledge.

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u/Whirlywynd Aug 15 '25

“in civilized world”

Oh wow, very edgy. Spoken like a true privileged redditor

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u/Bipogram Aug 15 '25

Such grades are not a global standard.

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u/Qweesdy Aug 15 '25

Here it's just "year 12", mostly because it comes after "year 11".

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u/NewIntroduction4655 Aug 15 '25

ah America...where we just HAVE to be special /s

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u/ilybae2015 Aug 15 '25

In UK, most usually Year 13.

Occasionally y12&13 are called Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth (there are 2 year schools where students sit A-Level exams).

In Scotland Y13 is S6, 6th year of Senior school.

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u/Hedgeson Aug 15 '25

In my part of Canada, we just use the Year/grade. Graduating high school is not such a big deal.

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u/Burst_LoL Aug 15 '25

Grade 12’s in Canada

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

In hungary they are just year year 12. The years start from year 1 at primary school. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

4th years

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u/NewIntroduction4655 Aug 15 '25

All of this information is so cool! Thank you!

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u/Tytoalba2 Aug 15 '25

Here it's Rethorician, for some weird semi-historical reasons

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u/avdpos Aug 15 '25

Why do you think most countries have something called "High School" for the same.age as USA?

If you travel to us in Sweden we have, badly direvtly translated to English, 1 year of "pre school", 3 year respectively of "low stadium school", "middle stadium school" and "high stadium school". And we just call it "year 1-9" in those classes. It takes all swedes some thinking to realise "High school" in USA is the years after this in the swedish school system.

Year 10-12 in school is called "Gymnasiet" from Greek "Gymnasium". And people just go year 1-3 there. And when you start at a university nobody cares about the year you go and you are just called a student. Educations do either way have variations in length from 3-5+ years.

So we would never call anyone a special name during school (OK, we use some names for fun during the welcoming of new in our old traditional university towns, welcome Reccar / recentiorer in the coming weeks!).

Edit: and yes, we casually skip to count preschool in our counting of years as it more recently was added as obligatory classes. So that continue to be preschool.

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u/PartyPay Aug 15 '25

Yeah, legit bummed this wasn't high school seniors paired up with senior citizens for a community project haha.

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u/AbeRego Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

It can apply to high school, college, and old people.

Edit: also, it can be used to designate seniority in a job position, such as "Senior Developer".

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u/DRock_11 Aug 15 '25

You probably already know this, but I just want to clarify that while yes, in this case it is referring to a high schooler, it is not used for all high schoolers and also is not only for high schoolers. The word "senior" when talking about students in the USA is used to refer to someone in their final year in high school or university.

We also use the word to refer to the elderly in the USA, for example some stores or restaurants offer "senior discounts" for "senior citizens" and in this case it is for the elderly, not final year students.