Dwight F. Davis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations. Twenty-two Nobel laureates... have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked fourteenth in the nation and seventh in admissions selectivity by U.S. News and World Report. The class of 2016 had an acceptance rate of 15.4% out of 28,826 applicants. The university is also ranked 30th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. In 2006, the university received $434 million in federal research funds, ranking seventh among private universities receiving federal research and development support, and in the top four in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Washington University is made up of seven graduate and undergraduate schools that encompass a broad range of academic fields.
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Washington University School of Law , is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. The law school is one of the seven graduate and undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1867, the School of Law is the oldest continually operating private law... school west of the Mississippi River. Originally, the law school was located in downtown St. Louis, but it relocated in 1904 to the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and is presently housed in Anheuser-Busch Hall. It is currently ranked 23rd overall among American Bar Association approved law schools by U.S. News & World Report. Its clinical training and trial advocacy programs have consistently ranked in the top ten according to the same source. For the Fall 2011 entering class , Washington University School of Law received 3,848 applications for 245 spots. The median undergraduate GPA for the 2011 entering class was 3.70 and the median LSAT score was 168 . The entering class represents 135 undergraduate institutions, 38 states and DC, and 4 foreign countries. 66 students in the entering class are minorities.
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