A big welcome to the Class of 2025 who finished orientation last week! A few standout facts about our incoming 1Ls: 🦁 73% have academic or professional experience beyond college. 🦁 They speak 60+ languages. 🦁 They include a dancer, poet, beekeeper, four-time Junior Olympic champion, and an ultramarathoner. 🦁 One student has competed in the Westminster Dog Show since she was four years old and another has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. ➡️ Scroll through to see moments from the Class of 2025’s first days on campus. 📸 1: Peer mentors welcome incoming 1Ls to campus. 2: Dean Gillian Lester addresses the Class of 2025 at orientation. 3: #CLSProfs Jamal Greene, Talia Gillis, and Thomas P. Schmidt give advice during a faculty panel. 4: Preet Bharara ’93, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks to the class at a professional pathways event. 5: Students participate in a community service outing. 6: An orientation favorite: the food truck fair on 116th Street. 7, 8: Members of the new class mingle at the food truck fair. 9: Ready to start the first semester of Columbia Law School!