twelfth graders
Final year students
Twelfth graders are students in their final year of secondary school, typically seventeen or eighteen years old.
The term is American; British English uses "year thirteen" or "upper sixth." Twelfth graders face college applications, graduation preparations, and the peculiar mix of senioritis and anxiety that marks the end of high school: The twelfth graders are already checked out.
Act of starting
- cap and gownCeremonial graduation attire
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- valedictorianTop-ranked graduating student
salutatorian · tassel · mortarboard · gown · procession · honors · speeches · baccalaureate
- drivingControlling a vehicle
- votingFormally registering a choice
- promHigh school formal dance
- senior yearLast year before graduation
adulthood · independence · rites of passage · coming-of-age · gap year · leaving home · senior portraits · class rings
Students in same course
- peersThose of equal status
- cliquesExclusive social groups
- homecomingReturning to one's origin
- yearbookSchool memory publication
superlatives · spirit week · football games · parties · dating · social media · reunions · farewells
Documents requesting university enrollment
- AP coursesCollege-prep high school classes
- finalsConcluding tests or matches
- transcriptsWritten versions of speech
- GPACumulative academic score
SAT · ACT · essays · recommendations · course load · senioritis · capstone · thesis
commencement
Act of starting
- cap and gownCeremonial graduation attire
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
valedictorian · salutatorian · tassel · mortarboard · gown · procession · honors · speeches · baccalaureate · pomp and circumstance
turning eighteen
senior year · adulthood · independence · rites of passage · coming-of-age · gap year · leaving home · senior portraits · class rings · senior skip day
classmates
Students in same course
- peersThose of equal status
- cliquesExclusive social groups
- homecomingReturning to one's origin
yearbook · superlatives · spirit week · football games · parties · dating · social media · reunions · farewells · memories
college applications
Documents requesting university enrollment
- AP coursesCollege-prep high school classes
- finalsConcluding tests or matches
- transcriptsWritten versions of speech
GPA · SAT · ACT · essays · recommendations · course load · senioritis · capstone · thesis · electives
- senior yearsenior, seniors, senior year, senior class, senioritis
- teensteenagers, teen, teens, teenager, adolescents
twelfth gradersfirst graders
Children aged six to seven
kindergarteners · kindergartners · freshmen · ninth graders · preschoolers
twelfth gradersfreshmen
Newly enrolled students
ninth graders · first-year students · underclassmen · sophomores · tenth graders
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