Newton, MA--Boston College Law School is pleased to welcome the entering class of 2013. Applications this year totaled nearly 7,000, or over 27 candidates for every seat in the entering class. The class of 2013 is one of the most competitive and impressive in the school’s history. BC Law is once again among the top few law schools in the country in the volume of applications it receives.

The class of 2013 is one of the school’s most diverse. The class is split into a 49 percent male and 51 percent female ratio, with an average age of 24. Entering students represent 25 states and the District of Columbia, and come from 114 different colleges and universities. Twenty-five percent are students of color.

Median LSAT scores held steady at 166, and median undergraduate GPA increased to 3.61. The class contains a Fulbright scholar, four National Merit scholars, and twelve who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from their undergrad institution. Twenty-two have advanced degrees.

The class of 2013 includes legislative fellows, staffers, press secretaries and interns for members of Congress, US Attorneys, the Department of Justice and the Conservation Law Foundation; volunteers in the Peace Corps, Teach for America, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Appalachia Volunteers, the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, the Animal Rescue League, Amnesty International, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Sierra Club; and members of the armed forces, including a recipient of the Presidential Service Badge for direct support to the President of the United States, and the Bronze Star.

“This is a very impressive class,” said BC Law Assistant Dean for Admissions Rita Jones. “One volunteered for ten years at an orphanage in Inchon, and also served as a sergeant in the Defense Security Command of the Korean army. Another, while serving in the Peace Corps in West Africa, launched a savings product that currently serves over 2,000 clients previously without bank access. I could go on and on…these are just two among 261 remarkable individuals.”

Eighty-five students speak at least one foreign language including Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Luganda, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

For a full transcript of the Assistant Dean of Admissions comments to the opening class at orientation, click here.