Penn State College of Medicine recently held its 50th annual white coat ceremony to welcoming its incoming class of 152 future doctors.

The medical school is located just outside Lancaster County and is affiliated with Penn State Hershey Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, which is located on the same campus.

The class included 55 Pennsylvania residents, including several from Cumberland, Dauphin and Lancaster counties.

The white coats marked their entrance to the medical profession as student physicians.

The medical school said the students were selected from a pool of 8,615 applicants. The 82 women and 70 men had 71 different undergraduate majors, have been to more than 50 countries and speak more than 25 languages.

It also noted that more than 40 percent of the incoming students identify as part of an ethnic minority -- and on a lighter note, that three play the ukulele.

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