If records are meant to be broken, then 2010 shouldn't feel badly being nudged out by 2011. The university received a record 16,497 undergraduate applicants for the upcoming school year, according to admissions. (Anyone applying to more than one of the university's colleges counted as only one applicant.) That's a 6.5 percent increase over last year's record 15,496 applicants. Meanwhile, Carnegie Mellon in Qatar also had a record number of applicants for the incoming class—650 from 65 nations, a 26 percent increase over last year.