Syracuse University's first-year class this year has 336 students, well above the target of 270.

"The competition this year was particularly keen - we received over 13,300 applications for just 1,160 places in the first-year class."

In the very best law schools, first-year classes are 50 percent or more female.

Staying at the academy is just as difficult; only about half of every first-year class graduates.

The first-year class consisted of 107 men and 92 women.

Thirty-eight of the 512 students admitted to the current first-year class are black.

The most significant change is the switch of the required first-year class from general to entrepreneurial management.

For the first time ever, white men that year made up less than half the first-year class.

He said the school had received 2,600 applications for the 200 places in its first-year class and would have 500 students returning.

His plan was one large room, ideal for entertaining a first-year class of 40 students.