Profile of First-Year Class
At Dickinson Law, we aim to limit the size of our entering class to no more than 100 diverse and highly credentialed students. Our Law School family includes students who have served in the military, self-identify as students of color and/or as members of the LGBTQ+ community, are first-generation graduate students, and are first-generation college students. The data reported below are from Dickinson Law’s fall 2020 admissions cycle.
| PROFILE OF FALL 2020 ENTERING CLASS: | |
| Total Number of Applicants | 829 |
| Total Number of Offers of Admissions | 320 |
| Total Number of Matriculants | 85 |
| LSAT CREDENTIALS: | |
| 75th Percentile | 162 |
| Median | 160 |
| 25th Percentile | 153 |
| GPA CREDENTIALS: | |
| 75th Percentile | 3.73 |
| Median | 3.39 |
| 25th Percentile | 3.14 |
| PERCENTAGE OF SELF-IDENTIFIED STUDENTS OF COLOR: | |
| 44% |
| PERCENTAGE OF SELF-IDENTIFIED STUDENTS AS MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY: | |
| 20% |
| AGE: | |
| Average | 26.5 |
| Median | 24 |
| Range | 21 - 42 |
| PERCENTAGE OF FIRST-GENERATION GRADUATE STUDENTS: | |
| 53% |
| PERCENTAGE OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS: | |
| 28% |
| GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION: 22 states (11% are from rural communities) and several Canadian provinces, including British Columbia and Ontario |
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Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia |
| UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGES REPRESENTED: | |
| Members of this class have attended a variety of undergraduate institutions including Bard College, Brown University, California State University, Case Western Reserve University, Catholic University of America, College of William & Mary, Dickinson College, Georgetown University, Gettysburg College, Hofstra University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Iowa State University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY, McGill University, Messiah College, Morris Brown College, North Carolina Central University, Penn State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, Simon Fraser University, SUNY at Buffalo Center, Temple University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Maryland, University of Alabama, University of Arizona, University of Toronto, University of Vermont, Vassar College | |
| BEFORE ATTENDING DICKINSON LAW, MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2023: |
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