Nine pairs of twins are roaming the freshman dorms this year.

Mike Mills, Miami's admissions director, thinks this is a record in a class, although it's not specifically tracked. There are 3,492 freshman students enrolled this semester.

"It's different because now we are hanging out with different people," twin Anne Rohlfer said. "Even though we're living together, we're seeing each other less."

She and her sister, Lizzy, who graduated from Oak Hills High School, are the only pair that chose to live together.

"We roomed together because most people get uptight about roommates and so living together just made sense," Anne said.

They share the same room and have two classes together, but not the same schedules. Lizzy has an additional commitment to the synchronized skating team.

Both sisters agreed they enjoyed being together at Miami.

"I'd say it's pretty good because there's always someone you know," Lizzy said. "In general, it works really nice."

Two sisters from Mason also enjoy having their twin on the same campus, but also don't see as much of each other as they did at Mason High School.

"I thought we would hang out and have many of the same friends, but we just don't see each other that much," Laura Tedford said. "Sometimes we have to plan times to see each other."

She and sister Katie both said they arrived at their decisions to attend Miami independently. Laura had always wanted to go to Miami, but Katie had leaned toward the University of Kentucky.

"In the beginning, it was cool because I was on my own," Laura said. "But now I miss her. I think I'll start missing her more as the year goes on. It's nice knowing she's still here if I do want to go visit."

Both said being at the same campus sometimes causes confusion among friends. But the minor mix-ups with new friends have become just another day on campus.

"A lot of people don't even know I have a twin," Katie said.

The number of twins at Miami reflects the national trend of rising numbers of twin births. The twin birth rate in 2002 was 31.1 per 1,000 births, an increase of 65 percent since 1980, according to the 2002 National Vital Statistics Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The other pairs of freshmen RedHawks are Kimberly and Stephanie Nguyen of Westerville, Ohio; Katherine and Jeffrey Ross of Dublin, Ohio; Benjamin and Katherine Garbarek of Des Plaines, Ill.; Nick and Jon Otto of Oxford; David and Edwin Reif of Westerville; Kristin and Stephanie Rotar of Concord, Ohio; and Tim and Eric Pollitz of Ottawa, Ohio.