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Originally Posted by adpiucf
"Rising [year]" means that when the new school year resumes you will be [year]. This is different than an incoming student, which is a new student. I've heard it living in the northeast, deep south, and west coast, so I wouldn't call it regional either. It's a commonly used phrase when talking about students.
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It's not common here in the Midwest. I had never heard it until GC. It makes the grammarian in me bristle a little. Incoming would still be grammatically correct, you are an incoming sophomore even if you were a freshman at your school last year. Incoming student is new to the school, just as an incoming sophomore will be new to sophomore year (unless he or she does not have enough credit hours to be classified as a junior and is a repeat sophomore). In my area, we hear second year, third year more often as many programs vary from 3.5 years to 5 years. It seems to have taken the place of freshman, sophomore, etc.