Question for British list members/school years

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 
 
> BTW, are the terms "freshman" (first-year of high school or college),
> "sophomore" (second year), "junior" (third year), and "senior" (fourth
> year) used in the UK at all? I think that "freshman" (for "freshe man"
> meaning "new boy") originated there, but I was once reprimanded by an
> OuP (Oxford University Press) editor for using "freshman," which she
> labeled an Americanism. I could have sworn that the term was invented
> at Eton!

The On=Line Etymology Dictionary says 'freshman' "is attested from 1596"
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=freshman&searchmode=none

I always thought the terms 'freshman', 'sophomore', and 'senior' were
used for the three years of British universities, but when list member
John Walton was at St. Andrews, he told us of the very strange names
(I don't remember) of the years at St. Andrews.