<p>^ They do. Just not for this upcoming year - they didn’t have the space to house any. </p>
<p>“…it is very hard for traditional students to get into Stanford as transfers. For some reason they’re infatuated with non traditional students and community college students.”</p>
<p>Might the reason be that those students in particular demonstrate the most immediate NEED of an educational jump of such proportion? From an acom’s point of view, I’m pretty sure I would give a rats ass about some kid from Georgetown or Cornell trying to move a few teeny rungs up the educational ladder by transferring into Stanford.</p>
<p>Harvard website does not state that it is for this year only. I honestly do not think they will accept any transfer for at least couple more years.</p>
<p>I too find it rather refreshing that S is willing to take the leap in accepting these CC and non-trad students who likely add a whole different kind of diversity to their student body. Gosh, a whole 10 or fewer spots a year going to these students, hardly causes a dent in the ability for traditional students to attend S (and this is coming from the parent of a traditional student turned down as a transfer to S last year).</p>
<p>^ Agreed. I got waitlisted there for Fall '07 (the first crazy year, where the number of admits went from 65 -> 20). I was a year out of the Army with one semester of junior college under my belt and a sub-par HS record. I flew out to meet the admissions team and they were very cool. I was impressed with the way they went about their business (they casually referred to schools like UVA and Notre Dame as their “peer institutions” and enthusiastically recommended both). I also exchanged a ton of back and forth personal email with two different Stanford adcom Deans during separate years- and one of those years, I wasn’t even applying there! Nothing but good things to say about Stanford: awesome place, awesome people. </p>
<p>"Harvard website does not state that it is for this year only. I honestly do not think they will accept any transfer for at least couple more years. "</p>
<p>This may or may not end up being true, but that doesn’t change the fact that they have always, as far as I am aware, had a transfer admissions process. This year the Dean of Admissions sent out letters to everyone who submitted a Harvard transfer application, saying that the space issue was giving them cause to cancel this years transfer process.</p>
<p>And of course they wouldn’t address the future of their transfer policy yet- I doubt they can fully gauge at the moment who they will and will not be able to accommodate in the immediate future (construction tends to take awhile…). Thus it would make sense to let a sleeping dog lie.</p>