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
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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,
Saloman 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.
GENERAL PROFILE
CLASS OF 2005
CLASS OF 2005 PROFILE
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS REPRESENTED
3.65 on a 4.0 scale
3.49-3.79
MEDIAN LSAT: 166 (95th percentile)
25%-75% LSAT: 164-169
AVERAGE AGE: 24 (range is 21 to 54)
MEDIAN GPA:
25%-75% GPA:
350 students enrolled from 4,442 applicants from 600
colleges and universities
198 non-resident students from 35 states, the District
of Columbia, and 9 foreign countries (Austria, China,
Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Marshall Islands, Morocco,
Sweden, Turkey)
202 men, 148 women
51 minority students among the 292 who identified their
ethnicity (15 percent)
Although differing approaches to college grading render
comparative statements misleading, most of the students
in the Class of 2005 ranked in the upper 20 percent of
their graduating classes. Thirty-five have also completed
advanced degree work, including six Ph.Ds. and two
D.Phils.
NON-RESIDENT REPRESENTATION
Alabama
Austria
California
China
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Germany
Hawaii
Hong Kong
Illinois
Indiana
Japan
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
4
1
15
1
2
7
1
7
11
4
1
1
1
4
4
2
2
3
4
1
7
16
3
2
Missouri
Morocco
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Sweden
Tennessee
Texas
Turkey
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
1
1
1
12
2
32
4
4
1
1
8
3
1
3
8
1
3
1
2
3
2
NON-RESIDENT
RESIDENT
198
152
TOTAL
350
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
51
39
21
16
16
11
10
9
8
7
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
Represented by one student in
the class were 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 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
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
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.
TOTAL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS REPRESENTED: 102