Class of 2005 Profile

(Brochure)

  • Median GPA: 3.65 on a 4.0 scale
  • 25%-75% GPA: 3.49-3.79
  • Median LSAT: 166 (95th percentile)
  • 25%-75% LSAT: 164-168
  • Average age: 24 (range is 21 to 54)
  • Acceptance rate: 22.3%
  • 350 students enrolled; 4,417 students from 600 colleges and universities applied
  • 198 nonresident students from 35 states, Washington D.C., and eight foreign countries (Austria, China, Germany, Japan, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey)
  • 202 men, 148 women
  • 51 minorities among the 292 who identified their ethnicity (15 percent)

STUDENTS ARE FROM 102 UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS, including the University of Virginia, Harvard University, Duke University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Yale University , College of William & Mary, Rice University, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Johns, Hopkins University, Williams College, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, University of Chicago, UNC - Chapel Hill, Claremont McKenna College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Vanderbilt University, Amherst College, California Institute of Technology, Davidson College, Emory University, George Mason University, Hamilton College, Haverford University, Kenyon College, New York University, Smith College, SUNY-Binghamton, Tufts University, United States Military Academy, University of California - Berkeley, University of Colorado, University of Texas - Austin, University of Utah, Wake Forest University, Washington & Lee University. Represented by one student: American University, Bates College, Beloit College, Benedictine College, Bob Jones University, Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brigham Young University, Bryn Mawr College, Bucknell University, Carleton College, Colgate University, Concord College, DePauw University, Earlham College, East Carolina University, Fordham University, Fudan University, Furman University, George Washington University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Grove City College, Houghton College, Hunter College, James Madison University, Marymount University, Middlebury College, Mississippi State University, New College of the University of South Florida, Ohio State University, Old Dominion University, Pennsylvania State University, Pomona College, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Salisbury University, Southern Adventist University, Southern Methodist University, Taylor University, United States Air Force Academy, United States Naval Academy, University of California - Irvine, University of Florida, University of Hawaii - Manoa, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, University of International Business and Economics, University of Maryland - College Park, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, University of Oklahoma, University of Philippines, University of Pittsburgh - Greensburgh, University of the South, University of Vermont, University of Washington, Vassar College, Washington University, Wellesley College, West Virginia University.

CLASS OF 2005 EXPERIENCE: Commercial fishing boat worker; technical engineer; paralegal; writers’ agent in Hollywood; reporter; economic analyst for the Federal Trade Commission; dock manager at a marina; cryptologist; co-director of congressional affairs at the Center for Middle East Peace; asset manager for the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency; patent writer; medicinal chemist; worker at Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Calcutta; trainer of Seeing Eye dogs; U.S. National water polo team member; neurocognitive tester at Duke Medical Center; taxi driver; metallurgical engineer; protocol clerk at the U.S. Embassy in Paris; Federation figure skating judge; clean air coordinator for the Southern Environmental Law Center; firefighter/EMT; member of the White House advance team; deckhand on a three-masted sailing ship; investigator for the Public Defender Service; assistant director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Krakow; pro tennis player; auditor at the CIA; journalist in Mexico; HVAC designer; researcher for the Center for Science in the Public Interest; materials engineer; housing specialist for a community psychiatric clinic; AIDS research fellow at NIH; security analyst working for the FAA; linguist; children’s librarian; editor for Cambridge University Press; terrorism researcher at Los Alamos National Labs; warehouse distribution manager; adviser to the Philippine government on natural resource and environmental issues; house painter; teacher; New York City police officer; assistant director of admissions at Princeton; Capitol Hill lobbyists, legislative aides, campaign managers, and researchers; assistant and associate professors of philosophy; web engineers; systems analysts; software engineers; network security directors; public radio classical music producer and announcer; served in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps; financial analysts for firms including Deutschebank, Salomon Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley, Capital One, Ernst & Young, and J. P. Morgan; auditor for Arthur Anderson; CPA; editor of the Federal Reserve’s Economic Quarterly; Shanghai correspondent for Business China, a publication of The Economist.