Incoming students took part in pre-Orientation service projects around Atlanta. - At Samaritan House’s Café 458, students helped prepare and serve meals restaurant-style to homeless men and women.
- At Atlanta Union Mission’s residential recovery program, My Sister’s House, a group of students assisted with child care, sorting donations in the clothing closet and preparing a meal for residents.
- At Kashi Street Meals, students helped prepare peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for area homeless shelters.
- At Project Open Hand, students packaged meals in preparation for delivery. Project Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through comprehensive nutrition care.
Emory Law Class of 2012 Profile | 4,589 | Enrolled | 247 | Female | 46% | Male | 54% | Median age | 23 | Age range | 20-42 | Class percentiles | LSAT | GPA | Median | 166 | 3.57 | 25th | 165 | 3.37 | 75th | 167 | 3.68 | Ethnicity White/Caucasian | | 65% | Under-represented groups | | 35% | | Asian/Pacific Islander | 14% | | Hispanic/Latino | 12% | | Black/African American | 7% | | American Indian/Alaskan Native | 2 | Universities with the most incoming students University of Georgia | 18 | University of Florida | 14 | University of Michigan | 11 | Vanderbilt University | 11 | Emory University | 9 | University of Virginia | 9 | Duke University | 7 | Cornell University | 7 | Tulane University | 6 | University of Miami | 6 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 6 | Stanford University | 5 | |  Professor Jan Pratt and a group of students, including Marissa Smith 12L and Sean Sobottka 10L (above), helped the Atlanta Community Food Bank sort food and check packaging to ensure donated items were safe for local food pantries and shelters.  Marc Gross 12L (first row, from left), Jeff Slanker 12L, Brandon Goldberg 10L, Adam Reinke 12L (second row from left), Cody Warner 12L and Jon Fayer 12L spent the morning helping break up old concrete and clean up a work area for the Chattahoochee Nature Center near Roswell, Ga. After they finished with the concrete, students helped mulch.  Students helped the East Side Parks Network mark gravesites at Clay Cemetery in Gilliam Park in East Atlanta. Students mulched, removed invasive plants and worked on a bike path. The cemetery is one of Atlanta’s first integrated cemeteries. |