I googled "rising senior" and got under a million results. Even more telling, the very first result was title "What is a rising senior?" It's also worth pointi

I googled "rising senior" and got under a million results. Even more telling, the very first result was title "What is a rising senior?" It's also worth pointing out that I'm US born and bred, spent 7 years at universities and was unfamiliar with the term. It sounded pretentious to me.