Entering Class Profile

Fun Facts About the Class of 2014

This class has collectively lived or worked in:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lesotho, Liberia, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, The Netherlands, The Philippines, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Vietnam

And can read and speak the following languages:

Amharic, Arabic, Attic Greek, Bengali, Cantonese, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Krio, Latin, Mandarin, Malayalam, Neapolitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Shanghainese, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Wakhi, Yoruba

Members of the class include:

  • Union organizer

  • Coauthor of a book with James Carville

  • Deckhand on a fishing boat

  • Insurance claims adjuster

  • Junior economist on the Council of Economic Advisors

  • Published novelist

  • Army ranger and platoon leader in Iraq

  • American League pool player

  • Shakespearian actor

  • Assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  • Nationally-ranked tournament Scrabble player

  • Researcher for George W. Bush’s presidential memoir

  • Concert violinist who studied with Itzhak Perlman

  • Self-taught vintage Vespa mechanic

  • Special Assistant to the General Counsel for the Director of National Intelligence

  • Classical Indian Bharatnatyam dancer

  • Parachuting coach ,U.S. Air Force pilot, and Bronze Star recipient

  • Recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Award in opera

  • Competitive diver

  • Irish dancer

  • Children’s book author

  • International Sanshou (kickboxing) champion

  • Ballroom dancer

  • Community outreach worker

  • Salsa instructor

  • Apple iPhone application developer

  • Author of the Croatia and Greece sections of the 2009 Let’s Go Europe guide

  • Classical radio DJ

  • Policy advisors to: the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Conservative Party, the Liberian Liberty Party, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker

  • 4 Rhodes scholars

  • 3 Marshall scholars

  • 8 Fulbright scholars

  • 4 Truman scholars

  • 4 military officers (1 Army, 1 Navy, 2 Air Force)

  • 3 Eagle Scouts

  • 8 marathon/ultramarathon runners

  • 2 triathletes

  • 5 martial arts black belts 

Class of 2014 Profile

3173 applicants
259 new offers    ·    216 new offers accepted
252 net admits1    ·    205 matriculated
47% women   ·   38% students of color    ·    24 average age   ·   38 states represented
20% directly from undergrad  ·   45% 1-2 years out  ·   35% 2+ years out

1In contrast to the new offers amount, which provides the number of new offers made during the 2010-11 admissions cycle, the net admits number takes into account prior deferrals that are part of the incoming class and deducts new deferrals that will not be part of the incoming class.  

                                                     GPA
|______________________________________________|
 3.61                 3.83                     3.90                       3.96                    4.15            
 Low                 25%                     Median                 75%                   High

                                                    LSAT
|______________________________________________|
157                   170                       173                        177                     180      
Low                  25%                     Median                 75%                   High


74 undergraduate institutions represented:   

American University

Bates College

Birmingham Southern College

Boston College

Boston University

Brandeis University

Brigham Young University

Brown University

California Institute of Technology

California State University-Long Beach

Carnegie Mellon University

Clemson University

Columbia University-Columbia College

Cornell University-NY

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Eastern University

Emory University

Florida State University

Georgetown University

Harvard University

Hillsdale College

Hunter College-CUNY

Johns Hopkins University

Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McGill University

Morehouse College

Northwestern University

NYU College of Arts & Sciences

Oberlin College

Ohio State University-Columbus

Ohio University

Patrick Henry College

Pomona College

Princeton University

Purdue University-West Lafayette

Reed College

Saint Peter’s College

Samford University

Scripps College

Seoul National University

Stanford University

Swarthmore College

Trinity College-CT

United States Air Force Academy

United States Naval Academy

University of Delaware

University of California-Berkeley

University of California-Los Angeles

University of California-Santa Barbara

University of Chicago

University of Georgia-Athens Y

University of Maryland-College Park

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

University of Miami

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

University of Texas-Austin

University of Toronto

University of Virginia

University of Wales

University of Washington

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Washington and Lee University

Washington University

Wesleyan University

Williams College

Yale University