Here's some useful stats from admitted candidates from Class of 2011: (Source - Email sent out to all the admitted students March 2009)

You are diverse. You come from 36 different countries and by my informal count speak roughly the same number of languages (plus Latin and American Sign Language!). You work for a range of different employers (the five most common: Barclay’s, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and The Boston Consulting Group) across many industries and all sectors – from, for example, Teach for America to The World Bank to Google to Procter & Gamble to Boeing to Time Warner to the U.S. Government and beyond.

You are smart. You are graduates of over 150 different universities (the five most common: Yale, Stanford, UPenn, Harvard, and Brown), many with Latin honors on your degrees and Greek honor societies on your resumes. In addition to bachelor’s degrees, many of you have master’s degrees, and some have law degrees, medical degrees, and doctorates. A number are published authors; a few hold patents. For those of you fixated on numbers, your average GMAT score is 717 – a point below the current first-year class’s 718, but we won’t hold that against you (J) – and your average GPA is 3.5.

You are driven. You are athletes – from varsity teams to intramural clubs. A few of you even played professional sports. And one of you was the Duke Blue Devil mascot (sorry, you Tar Heels out there). You continue to compete in marathons (Boston, New York, and Chicago, to name a few), triathlons, and leagues in variety of sports. You stay involved by teaching skiing, swimming, diving, soccer, baseball, basketball, and other sports.

You are involved. You volunteer for disaster relief and act as mentors and tutors. You train help dogs, work in shelters, rescue animals, provide free medical care, volunteer at food banks, and advocate for abused and neglected children. A number of you have even founded organizations in your communities, from literacy programs and primary schools for children to microfinance organizations. One of you is a volunteer fire fighter.

You are accomplished. You include representatives of all four arms of the US military, as well as several militaries of other countries. You have been decorated for your service – including at least one recipient of the Bronze Star. Some have top secret clearance. A few are military interrogators (my sense is that these are the ones you want on your team in Negotiations Class). And at least two are Army Rangers. Two others have undergone space training. You are chess champions and Eagle Scouts. You are CFA levels I, II, and III; you have your Series 7, 63, 66, 86 and 87 certifications. One of you completed two transatlantic sailboat crossings; others compete in ocean races. You are black belts – some in karate and taekwondo, others in Six Sigma. A number of you have already started your own companies.

You are just plain interesting. You are pilots, parachuters, wilderness rescuers, skydivers, paragliders, scuba divers, and skiers (both water and snow). You are artists, musicians, singers, dancers, DJs, photographers, cooks, and actors (one of you was a Hasty Pudding cast member; another founded a theatre company; yet another directed a musical based on “The Smurfs”). You make furniture. One of you races classic cars. Others captain dragon boats. At least one of you has hiked more than 1,800 miles of the Appalachian Trail. You like to travel – one of you has visited 39 countries on six continents. And one of you can type 100 words per minute.