I'm going to 3rd year of High School this autumn.
(I'm 18 and live in Finland, so I guess it's different from high school in the US. )

3rd year is normally supposed to be the last one, but since I switched to night school, and it's going to take longer than normal dayschool.. I'm prepared to have another 2 extra study years.. or so. >_>

Im 4th Year high school...
im graduating this year..
looking forward to my college life. xD
i hope that i will enjoy it.xD

woo, officialy finished compulsary education todaaaaaaaaaaay! so i just finished year 11, dunno what that is in grades but im 16 ^_-

Finished freshman year, will start sophomore year in August.

First year high school.... 13 years old

I'm turning sixteen in a few days, haha! I'm a senior in high school.

I'm going to start my senior year of high school in August, and I'm 17 (going to be 18 for most of it though, haha cut-off dates).

;P No more grades for me though I'm going into my fourth year at university.

3rd year in my current job

Freshman in college (:

Entered 8th grade, will be 14 by the end of the year.

Wow, DistantBlue, where are you?
I'm younger than you by about half a year and in Year 9 XD
Well, my country grades quite differently lol

Mmm, I'm 15 - year 11. Ahhhh, college/sixth form next year. Exciting.
I think in the US I'll be in 10th grade? Or will I be in my first year of High School? Confusing system D:

^10th grade I'm 15, about to turn 16, and I'm a sophomore in high school.

^
Same.

Haha interesting topic... don't know how I stumbled across it. XD

I'm a third year in college - age 20..

^ same, I'm 20 and in my third year at my university \o/

I'm 15 years old. Currently in my Sophomore year of High School.

Oh hay, a topic that I can reply to without ranting. |D

I'm also fifteen and in my sophomore year, but I'm taking college classes from Cambridge University.

I feel like I'm the baby fish in the pond. D:

Eighth grade, 13 years old. Will be 14 in December.

Um, not trying to sound like a idiot here but what exactly is sophomore year?
I'm 14 in May... even younger =(
I'm in first year of high school here though.... o_O
So that would make me about grade 7 or 8 in teh US?
Thats what someone told me...

Sophomore year means 10th grade, or the second year of high school

First year of high school in the US would mean 9th grade, or freshman year. Unless you (wherever you are) have different years for high school...

I'm a freshman in highschool.

Grade 11.

In the UK (which is where I'm assuming Illuminating Darkness is from), you start Primary School at 4/5 depending on where your birthday lands in the school year. Primary goes Reception>Year 1>Year 2 etc all the way to Year 6 by which time you're about 11. Then you start Secondary/High School, which lasts for 5 years until you're 15/16 (last year of high school is caled Year 11, which is when we stop numbering years).
Then you start at college (if you want to go, it optional but free ) which is (I'm assuming) similar to the last two years of an American High School. Some schools give a choice of staying for another year, which is called 6th form or Year 12.
Then you go on to University (not free ) which is what most Americans seem to call College.

As far as the topics question goes, I'm 19, and would be in my 2nd year of University/College if I'd gone

What? Really? College and university are different in the UK? I didn't know that........ and I happen to be in the UK right now.. attending 'university' I guess. Wow... I didn't know that at all........ -.-;

yep, confused the hell out of me when I first started watching a lot of American movies/TV shows. I be like "He's 18 and still in high school? The foosh?" I still don't have my head round the American education system. Isn't there like 3 types of high school BEFORE you go to (your) college?

Hmm, not three types of high school. It basically goes like this:
pre-school/kindergarten
Elementary school (grades 1-6)
Middle school or Jr. High in some districts (grades 7-8)
High school (grades 9-12)
College (4 more years)

I graduated from high school when I was 17, but a lot of people in my class were 18 at the time (I was one of the younger ones... )

ah my bad, i though middle school and jr high were different things xP thanks for clearing it up for me though

hand-made-city's got it mostly right, and I don't mean to burst your bubble but it really varies with different states and cities and even school districts. Where I used to live before I moved, we had elementary as grades 1-5, middle 6-7, junior high 8-9, and high school 10-12. It was a screwed up school system, tbh XD The standard is for high school to be your last 4 years, then go off to college if you choose to

Yeah, it really does depend on where you live... but that seemed like the most basic format of how the school systems in America are set up. My town had grades 5 and 6 as middle school, rather than elementary school, actually. But that only changed when I was in 4th grade, so it wasn't always like that. As a result, I wound up going to a different school for one year, and then going back to my old school for the next two years! So ridiculous!

GEEZ I feel like an OLD BAG!!! I just turned 25 for crissake!!!

I'm working on my MASTERS DEGREE...LOL

I got into FMA when I was like 21 I guess??

sophomore year of high school and it's alright so far....

Yeah, it's funny how our systems differ. xD I'm 17 (and from the UK) and I'm in college in what is known as "upper 6" or "Year 13." I'm applying for university now though. @_@

Yup, except now education in the UK is compulsory until you're 18. Which means you don't have a choice. Ahahah.
Gah, the US system is confusing, but at least not as confusing as the UK's use of 'public' 'state' 'private' etc schools. 'Public' schools in the UK mean private- not public... and then there's 'State' or 'Government' or whatever for normal schools. Then there are faith schools and grammar schools and blahblahblah. Oh, and applications for colleges are murder.

I am eighteen, and in my first semester of University.

"College" and "University" are synonymous by connotation, but technically, a "college" is a part of a whole; within a University, [commonly state schools and / or the larger schools with a variety of degrees granted] there are separate colleges dedicated to a specific degree program, or a cluster of related subjects. Por ejemplo, the "College of Fine Arts", "College of Communication [where I am]", " . . . Mathematics", et cetera. Within that university there are departments and colleges underneath it; they are, and should be distinguished, because you can apply not only to the overhead university, but the specific college within it as well.

Also, "colleges" tend to refer to smaller, more specialized schools that, while still considered and may be named as a "university".

This is regarding the US system, by the way.

I'm in highschool; grade 10.

Grade..um..19? (high school + college + 3)

I graduated college 7 years ago. Good lord I feel old here.

Senior in High School(So close to college! Must. Break. Freeee!x3) and I just became 17 yay!

LOL, I feel so young here. DX

Anyone a freshman in high school or younger?

I'm 13 years old and is in second year high school already ......

Geez ,, an 11 year old in second year high school . . . too exited to grow up . . . C:

I'm 18 and in first year in university. (University sound so big...I still feel so young, inside I never wanna grow up!! *runs away, tears in her eyes*)

Freshman in college. I'm one of the younger ones in my year; I turned eighteen just before classes started. I'm... adjusting.

Blah I don't unerstand these grade-things but I'm in the middle school, and this is my last year there, and when it ends I go to high school. ..only that I won't go to high school, I'll go to vocational school (is that what it's called in english ?_? dictionary says so XD).

I'm a sophmore in high school. So 10th

I'm a university undergraduate.

Fourth semester in college!



I did the same thing! I was 17 when I started college and didn't turn 18 'til December. Being young is fun

I'm in the 11th grade.