finalist vs fresher

finalist

noun
  • A university student in their final year of study. 

  • A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study). 

  • Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 

fresher

noun
  • A first year student at a university. 

  • A fresh graduate looking for one's first job. 

How often have the words finalist and fresher occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )