Class of 2010 Profile

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Median GPA: 3.76 on a 4.0 scale
25%-75% GPA: 3.51–3.87
Median LSAT: 170 (98th percentile)
25%-75% LSAT: 167–171
Median Age: 23 (range is 17 to 57)

361 students enrolled from among 5,438 applicants
216 men (60%), 145 women (40%)
69 identify themselves as minority students (19%)

Geographic Representation New students come from 40 different states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and two foreign countries. Approximately 40 percent of the entering class is comprised of Virginia residents. Other feeder states are Texas (24), New York (21), California (20), Georgia (16), Ohio (14), Florida (13), North Carolina (11), New Jersey (9), Illinois (8), South Carolina (8), Massachusetts (7), Michigan (7), Minnesota (7), Tennessee (7), Maryland (6), Missouri (6), Pennsylvania (6), Connecticut (5), Utah (5), Alabama (3), Arizona (3), the District of Columbia (3), Kansas (3), Kentucky (3), and Oklahoma (3), with the remainder from Arkansas, Colorado, Hawai’i, Iowa, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, and West Virginia. Our international students are from Sri Lanka and Thailand. 

EDUCATION Twenty-nine students hold advanced degrees, including master’s degrees in journalism, science education, finance, chemistry, linguistics, biomedical engineering, political science, international conflict studies, public and international affairs, accounting, hospital administration, human rights, security studies, public policy, philosophy, theology, history, politics, procurement and acquisitions management, English literature, chemical engineering, accountancy, national security and strategic studies, systems engineering, math education, and computer science. Three hold MBAs; two have a Ph.D., in religion and philosophy; one is an M.D.

UNDERGRADUATE REPRESENTATION
Amherst College
2
Arizona State University
3
Auburn University
1
Baldwin Wallace College
1
Baylor University
2
Berry College
1
Boston University
2
Bowdoin College
2
Brandeis University
1
Bridgewater College
1
Brigham Young University
6
Brigham Young University - Idaho
1
Brown University
1
Bucknell University
1
California State University - Northridge
1
Carleton College
2
Case Western Reserve University
1
Claremont McKenna College
2
Colby College
2
College of Charleston
1
College of The Holy Cross
1
College of William and Mary 18
Cornell University 8
Dartmouth College 6
Davidson College 2
Duke University 4
Emory University 6
Florida State University 4
Furman University 2
George Mason University 3
George Washington University 3
Georgetown University 9
Georgia Institute of Technology 1
Grove City College 1
Hamilton College 1
Harvard University 7
Hillsdale College 4
Iowa State University 2
James Madison University 4
John Carroll University 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Knox College 1
Lafayette College 1
Louisiana Tech University 1
Macalester College 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Miami University 1
Middle Tennessee State University 1
Middlebury College 3
New York University 1
North Carolina State University 1
Northwestern University 4
Ohio State University 3
Pennsylvania State University 4
Princeton University 8
Queens University 1
Rice University 3
Rockhurst College 1
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 1
Rutgers University 1
Saint John’s College - New Mexico 1
Saint John’s University 2
Saint Louis University 1
Saint Mary’s College of Maryland 1
Salisbury University 1
Seattle Pacific University 1
Skidmore College 1
Southeast Missouri State University 1
Stanford University 5
State University of New York at Albany 1
Strayer University 1
Suffolk University 1
Swarthmore College 1
Syracuse University 3
Texas A & M University 3
Thomas Aquinas College 2
Tufts 1
Tulane University 2
United States Air Force Academy 1
United States Naval Academy 1
University of Alabama 1
University of Arizona 2
University of California - Berkeley 3
University of California - Davis 1
University of California - Irvine 1
University of California - Los Angeles 2
University of California - San Diego 3
University of Central Florida 1
University of Chicago 2
University of Florida 9
University of Georgia 6
University of Illinois 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Maryland 2
University of Michigan 4
University of Minnesota 2
University of Mississippi 2
University of Missouri 2
University of Nebraska 1
University of North Carolina 7
University of Notre Dame 3
University of Oklahoma 3
University of Pennsylvania 7
University of Puget Sound 1
University of Richmond 4
University of Richmond - Westhampton College 1
University of Rochester 1
University of South Carolina 1
University of South Dakota 1
University of Southern California 4
University of Tennessee 1
University of Texas 6
University of Utah 2
University of Virginia 44
University of Wisconsin 2
Vanderbilt University 4
Vassar College 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 3
Wagner College 1
Wake Forest University 5
Washington and Lee University 4
Washington University 2
Wellesley College 1
Wesleyan University 2
West Virginia University 1
Western Kentucky University 1
Williams College 2
Wittenberg University 1
Yale University 7

TOTAL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS: 129

 
The Global Community First-year students have lived, worked, or studied all over the world, including the United Kingdom, throughout western Europe, and in New Zealand, Nigeria, Australia, Thailand, Guatemala, Japan, China, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India, Trinidad, Guyana, Israel, Jordan, Ecuador, the Philippines, South Africa, Brazil, Costa Rica, Morocco, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, the Cape Verde Islands, Lebanon, Romania, Pakistan, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Egypt, Tanzania, Bhutan, South Korea, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Afghanistan, Greece, and Bangladesh.

And In Their Spare Time Volunteer, extracurricular, athletic, and artistic pursuits include service with the Peace Corps, Teach for America, Americorps/VISTA, CityYear, Habitat for Humanity, on the Navajo reservation, Amnesty International, Special Olympics, Scouting, and the Innocence Project; work with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault; tutoring in schools, prisons, migrant farmworker communities, shelters, and after-school programs; work for political campaigns or issue advocacy on the local, state, and national level; teaching English here and abroad; as volunteer emergency room workers, firefighters and EMTs; post-Katrina cleanup on the Gulf Coast; animal rescue; support for hospice and AIDS patients; coaching youth sports; transcribing interviews with Holocaust survivors; mountain rescue; work with the disabled or special needs children; and as interpreters in court, with child protective services, and in hospitals. They play all the usual sports; there are marathoners and bicycle racers; a competitive figure skater; rock climbers and cavers; whitewater canoe and kayak enthusiasts; a sprint-distance triathlete; freestyle skiiers and a boxer; a pentathlete; a member of a Dragonboat team; a powerlifter; a motocross dirt bike racer; surfers and snowboarders. Dance enthusiasts include competitive ballroom dancers, Latin dance, African and Irish step dance, tap, Asian dance, ballet, hip-hop and breakdance, and jazz. There is a bagpiper and an opera singer; several singers and songwriters; African drummers and a marimba player; and a fiddler in a Celtic band. Several compete on and train horses; they practice any number of martial arts, including Korean swordfighting; and one is a competitive Texas Hold’em poker player.

Life Before Law School Many members of this class have worked as paralegals or legal assistants, mostly at law firms but also with the Department of Justice and Legal Aid. A number have worked as committee staffers, including with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the House Agriculture Committee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee; as legislative assistants on Senate or Congressional staffs, or in similar roles on the state level. This class includes Virginia’s assistant secretary of transportation and two policy assistants to the Governor of Virginia. Many have been analysts, consultants, or researchers with firms including Accenture, AIG, Wells Fargo, SNL Financial, Promontory Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dominion Resources, KPMG, Merrill Lynch, The Advisory Board, the American Institute of Mathematics, and policy groups including the Council on African American Affairs, the National Iranian American Council, the Indian Law Resource Center, the White House Council of Economic Advisors, and the American Israel PAC. Several have taught at the elementary, secondary, or college level. There are computer programmers, software engineers, systems analysts, and web developers; the COO of a media IT business, and a geographic information systems manager for a congressional redistricting project. One member of the class is a cardiothoracic surgeon and a former professor of surgery. There are civil, electrical, and construction engineers and patent examiners. Members of the class have served in the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, some with recent duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others have worked as an intelligence analyst for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center; marine mammal trainer; business consultant for a French cheese company; as an intelligence or economic analyst with the CIA; newspaper reporter; assistant director of stewardship for Stanford; microbiologist; modular home salesman; church organist and music director; probation officer; wedding photographer; restaurant manager; manager of a Radio Shack; counter-terrorism analyst; mental health technician at a children’s psychiatric center; prosecution assistant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; investigator for the public defender service; corrections officer; heli-rappel firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, and probation and parole officer.

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