Faculty and Students
UCLA School of Law has over 100 faculty members with expertise in all major disciplines of law; it "is one of the most diverse in the country." Since 2002, the faculty has published 48 new books, 45 chapters, and over 150 journal articles.
The admission rate for the Class of 2014 was 20%. 1,471 students were admitted out of a pool of 7,328 applicants. The median LSAT score was 168, and the median GPA was 3.78. The top quartile of the incoming class achieved a 3.88 GPA, and the top quartile scored a 169 on the LSAT.
The student body is "extraordinarily diverse." Over 32% of the UCLA law students are students of color: 5.3% of the student body identify as African-American, 17.8% as Asian, 8.4% as Hispanic or Latino(a) and 1.3% as Native American. The student body is 49% female and 51% male.
The students enrolled in the fall 2009 came from 110 undergraduate schools; by number of students enrolled, the top undergraduate schools were UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, UC San Diego, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UC Santa Barbara and Harvard University. Thirty-one percent of UCLA law students hail from out-of-state, coming from 33 states and 9 foreign countries.
The school sponsors a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.
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