As freshmen enrolled in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an interdisciplinary college for "independent thinkers," the 18-year-old actresses devise their own academic program.

At the University of Pennsylvania, foreign students made up 10 percent of the 2,000 freshmen enrolled last fall, up from 4 percent six years earlier.

"I wish the Virgin Islanders youth would get more interested in skiing," Johnson said from her dormitory room at the University of Maine, where she is a freshman, enrolled in the ski-industry management program.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last February that among freshmen enrolled in four-year colleges in the fall of 1997, 25.9 percent did not return for their sophomore year.

In 2011, Integrative Thinking core curriculum was designed for freshmen enrolled in 2011.

At the start of the program EMU was known as the Michigan State Normal School and had 213 freshmen enrolled in ROTC classes.

Leadership and communication skills are also an area of focus with many core classes incorporating group projects and all freshmen enrolled in Management 100, a course in which student teams complete a semester project benefiting a partner Philadelphia community organization.

In the fall 2012-13 academic year 1,545 freshmen enrolled of which, 42% had finished in the top 10% of their class, 73% in the top quarter and 63 are National Merit Scholars.

About 43,000 freshmen enrolled in the system last year.

A Lezzad freshman, enrolled in class 1-C.