CLASS STATISTICS ... and more

The statistics below are intended only as a guide. Please keep in mind that we value diversity at Penn Law – diversity in thought, background, ethnicity, political points of view, racial heritage, age, and experience – and that due to their very nature, statistics cannot describe the extraordinary breadth of the Penn Law student body.

The best way to fully appreciate Penn Law is to visit. The Law School hosts information sessions for prospective students throughout the fall semester.  Please check www.law.upenn.edu/prospective/visitus.html for information session dates and times.

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Introducing the Class of 2014

Members of the Class of 2014 come from 33 states (the most represented are New York, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Illinois, and Massachusetts), the District of Columbia, the US Virgin Islands, and across the globe (including Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago), and 112 colleges and universities.

Overall, close to 200 institutions are represented in Penn Law's JD student body. See the list of schools.

Beyond the numbers

The Class of 2014 is filled with incredibly accomplished, talented, and dedicated students. To give you a sense of the true diversity of this remarkable class, here is a random collection of different student lives.

They are intellectually adventurous and committed to the integration of knowledge. They have earned advanced degrees or plan to complete a joint degree in the following disciplines:  Accounting, Asian Studies, Biotechnology, Business Administration, Comparative Politics, Development Studies, Economics, Education, Exercise and Sports Science, Government, Health Administration, Health Care Policy, Intercultural Studies, International Economics and Finance, Music, Political Science, Public Service, Public Policy, Religion, and Theology.

They are advocates, committed to transforming their local communities and to getting involved globally. They include teachers at all levels, including several Fulbrights, Americorps, and Teach for America; the president and executive director of a nonprofit whose goal it is to devise creative solutions to arid groups impacted by toxic contamination; the leader of campus discussions surrounding dating violence and homophobia; and a volunteer who worked in Ecuador to overcome barriers to basic health, education and financial security.

They are witty, uncompromising, and fun. They include several editors of college newspapers, numerous professional musicians and composers, an ESL teacher for refugee youth, an Ironman triathlete, and a former professional baseball player. In their admissions essays, they wrote about being inspired by art or literature including the Bible, Brethren, Inherit the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wicked, the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye, Monderman’s traffic circles and road designs in northern Holland, and Gulliver’s Travels.

They are professionals who have balanced individual wants with collective sacrifice and responsibilities. They include CPAs, journalists, entrepreneurs, grant writers, and engineers; commissioned officers in the Army and Marine Corps; numerous health educators and health policy analysts; several financial analysts and business consultants; a fiscal policy analyst for the House Committee on Ways and Means; and a senior operations analyst for the U.S. Army.

They are gifted team players and team leaders. They include captains of numerous sports teams; the founder and director of a local initiative which reaches out to immigrant youth; consultants in numerous industries (software, health, business, marketing, life sciences, PR/social media); and several undergraduate student body presidents.

Finally, they have life stories that are often unpredictable – and inspiring. They include a former professional baseball player; champion volleyball player; champion sailor; players of every instrument you can imagine with the most common being the violin; members of improvisational comedy troupes; several DJ's; first generation Americans; and several first generation college students – and now first generation law students.