Last fall, all over the world, suitcases and duffel bags zipped and snapped. Packing up to go to college sounds the same on every continent. This year’s Pittsburgh freshman class of 1,463 members was selected from a record applicant pool of 16,572. International students make up 9% of the incoming class, which is also the most diverse in the university’s history: 17% of the new students are African American, Hispanic, or Native American. On the Qatar campus, 107 freshman students started classes last fall, which also received a record number of applications from 65 nations.
—Shannon Deep (CMU’10, HNZ’11)
