Profile of First-Year Class
At Dickinson Law, we aim to limit the size of our entering class to roughly 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 2023 admissions cycle.
PROFILE OF FALL 2023 ENTERING CLASS: | |
Total Number of Applicants | 1,560 |
Total Number of Offers of Admissions | 555 |
Total Number of Matriculants | 107 |
LSAT CREDENTIALS: | |
75th Percentile | 163 |
Median | 162 |
25th Percentile | 157 |
GPA CREDENTIALS: | |
75th Percentile | 3.84 |
Median | 3.63 |
25th Percentile | 3.29 |
PERCENTAGE OF SELF-IDENTIFIED STUDENTS OF COLOR: | |
47% |
PERCENTAGE OF SELF-IDENTIFIED STUDENTS AS MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY: | |
20% |
PERCENTAGE OF FIRST-GENERATION GRADUATE STUDENTS: | |
64% |
PERCENTAGE OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS: | |
34% |
OUR NEWEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS REPRESENT 7 COUNTRIES INCLUDING: | |
India, Brazil, China, Republic of South Korea, Pakistan, Ghana, and Saint Lucia |
UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGES REPRESENTED: | |
Members of the Class of 2026 attended a variety of undergraduate institutions including, but not limited to, Gettysburg College, University of Pennsylvania, Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania State University, UCLA, University of Virginia, Dickinson College, Susquehanna University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, Brigham Young University, Colgate University, and Georgetown University. |
BEFORE ATTENDING DICKINSON LAW, MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2026: |
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Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025.