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For schools that have capacity (like Brown), acceptance rates aren't really something I think we need to worry about, because the decision won't really depend on much but the strength of the candidate, (even though space available is different each year, and transfer admissions for Brown is need aware, as I have recently read).
For schools that have almost no capacity (like Stanford), acceptance rates only matter in that you know your admission will be unlikely if only because there's almost no space, and so considerations could get arbitrary (to us) really fast.
I'm not as familiar with stuff that's been written about transfer admissions as I should be, considering, but it seems to me that schools are either difficult for transfer based on candidate quality/institutional needs or SUPER difficult based on candidate quality/institutional needs and space.
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