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I've heard "rising" before even when living in BFE.
First-year etc bugs because the reason for its creation is so pretentious - i.e. "freshman" was thought to be a negative term so God forbid anyone should be called that. So if you only go to school one semester a year and start in 2011, what are you now? Should you go by calendar years or what? And of course, as with everything else, "first year" can be made to have as negative a connotation as the term it replaced.
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