Adjective modifier

• incoming: Geared to high school students and incoming freshman, the programs have enrolled only African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American students since their inception.

• high: Sales were modest until my son, a high school freshman, decided not to sell chocolates during his school's annual sale.

Modifies a noun

• year: I also wrestled, from my fifth grade through to my freshman year of High School.

• class: AP scores are used for admission purposes only and not to achieve advanced standing in freshman classes.

• student: The first year, or Freshman students, who began at Richmond in Fall 2004, continue to have the profile of new approach.

• experience: Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina.

• course: A graduate seminar in organizational theory is far removed from a freshman biology course.

• orientation: In 1991 and 1992 both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal published surveys of freshman orientations.

Noun used with modifier

• college: I fell a bit short, placing third, but swam faster than I had as a college freshman 37 years ago.

• operation: The crew of this Halifax were the only people to return from Operation Freshman.

• school: Sales were modest until my son, a high school freshman, decided not to sell chocolates during his school's annual sale.

Preposition: in

• school: By the time he was a freshman in high school he was running 17:20.