Meet the Class of 2027
From athletes to published authors, the Law School’s new JDs boast an eclectic mix of talent
The Law School welcomed 198 new JD students to campus this fall. The students participated in orientation last week and began classes this week.
The cohort includes students from 32 states (including Washington, DC) and 87 different colleges and universities. They represent 47 different undergraduate majors, with 66 of them having written theses. Twenty-one students have graduate degrees and more than 85 have worked as research assistants.
The median LSAT score for the class is 173, and the median GPA, 3.94.
Ninety-eight of the students speak a language other than English with more than 30 languages represented, including Arabic, Armenian, Cantonese, Czech, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and many others.
More than 40 are published authors in various journals and books and more than 30 play a musical instrument. Additionally, more than 20 have participated in varsity sports.
There are 8 veterans, 7 AmeriCorps volunteers, and 4 Eagle Scouts.
There are also students who have created/founded an environmental art program on Navajo Reservation with the National Park Service, a generative AI privacy-preserving app, a graphic design company, and a coffee table book on the history of the Negro Baseball League and All-American Girls Baseball League.
The impressive class also includes a national gymnastics gold medalist, a classically trained ballerina, a classically trained opera singer, a McNair Scholar, a Schwarzman Scholar, a Truman Scholar, a motorcycle racer, a white water rafting kayak instructor, an electric vehicle autopilot engineer, an award-winning poet, a former Navy officer, a former professional baseball player, an elite competitor in equine competition jumping, and a US patent holder with at least 11 patents.
In addition, the Law School welcomed 83 LLM students from 28 different countries.