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Profiles & Statistics

Statistical Profile of the Class of 2029

  • 209 members of the class
  • 5,648 applicants
  • 90% yield (213 of 237 new offers accepted)
  • 24% first generation college and/or low income
  • 22% first generation college
  • 39% first generation professionals
  • 13% Hurst Horizon Scholars
  • 91% at least 1 year out of college
  • 57% at least 3 years out of college
  • 33% hold an advanced degree
  • 8% veterans and servicemembers (17 people across 5 branches)
  • 8 Rhodes Scholars, 3 Schwarzman Scholars, 3 Truman Scholars, 5 Fulbright Research Fellows, 6 Marshall Scholars, 2 Gates Cambridge Scholars
  • 87 undergraduate institutions represented

209

J.D. students

87

undergraduate institutions

22%

first generation college students (does not include low-income)

89.9%

yield
Range and Distribution of GPA, LSAT, and GRE Scores for the Class of 2029*
 Low25%Median75%High
GPA3.483.923.984.004.27
LSAT158171175178180
GRE Verbal160166169170170
GRE Quantitative159165167170170

GRE Analytical Writing

4.5

5

5

5.5

6

*95% of students submitted LSAT scores; 5% submitted GRE scores.

More About the Class of 2028

The Class of 2029 has collectively lived or worked in:

Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote D'Ivoire, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau S.A.R., Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

…and can read and speak the following languages:

American Sign Language, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Czech, Dari, Dutch, English, Ewe, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kashmiri, Korean, Krio, Kyrgyz, Lakota, Lao, Latin, Mandarin, Mende, Nahuatl, Nigerian Pidgin, Pali, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Thai Sign Language, Ukranian, Urdu, and Yoruba..

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85 undergraduate institutions represented

American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Bates College
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Carleton College
Central Michigan University
Colgate University
Columbia University: Columbia College
Columbia University: School of General Studies
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
DePauw University
Duke University
Florida State University
Fordham University
Franklin & Marshall College
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Kenyon College
Loughborough University
Lynn University
Marymount Manhattan College
Mississippi State University
Morehouse College
New England College
New York University (NYU)
New York University (NYU): Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University (NYU): Liberal Studies
Patrick Henry College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Reed College
Rice University
Rutgers University, New Brunswick: School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Santa Clara University
Smith College
Southern Connecticut State University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Swarthmore College
Texas Christian University
Thomas Aquinas College
Tsinghua University
United States Air Force Academy
United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
University of British Columbia
University of California: Berkeley
University of California: Los Angeles
University of California: Santa Barbara
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of Colorado: Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Maryland: Baltimore County
University of Miami
University of Michigan: Ann Arbor
University of Mississippi
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Carolina: Columbia
University of South Dakota
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Washington Tacoma
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne State University
Wesleyan University
Wheaton College
Whitman College
Yale University
Yeshiva University

 

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