What do I say when people ask what grade I am in?

Question

I know that it doesn't matter that much but I was just curious. I am going to be in 12th grade in the fall, but school hasn't started yet. If I haven't started 12th grade, would that mean I am in 11th grade? This is related to another question I have. I looked at the UC school application. It considers grades earned the summer after 11th grade to be junior year grades. When I saw the extracurriculars section, it just asks for activities done in 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade. Based on what they do with grades, could I assume that the activities I will do will be considered done in the 11th grade?

Answer 1

At the end of each school year, you graduate into the next grade level. Do high school graduates only get their ceremony at the end of summer when they enter college? When you graduate from middle school, graduation is at the end of the year, not the beginning of the next.

Answer 2

Tell people who ask that "I will be a senior when school starts again." You technically are considered a junior until you enter the 12th grade (unless you are taking some senior classes in the summer). The same would apply to your grades, since you don't know what sort of difficulty (if any) you will have with your senior classes. Until you enter 12th grade, and pass/fail your classes, you can't list them on a college application. Activities are classified the same way. Unless there is a deadline on your college application, you should wait to see how your classes go and what activities you take part in before filling it out.

Answer 3

As you have now graduated from grade eleven, anything you do subsequent to that graduation counts towards your grade twelve education. So you are now in grade 12.