<p>Hi…</p>
<p>I applied as a spring transfer last year and got a letter in the mail that said “we are very sorry but there are no openings available for women” (or something like that). There was also a handwritten note encouraging me to reapply.
I would like to reapply but I’m afraid that the same thing might happen again. </p>
<p>Do you think that this might have been a gentle way of rejecting me?
Did this happen to anyone else?
Did anyone successfully transfer last spring?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Transfers are frequently used to fill holes. I’d imagine that W&M doesn’t have too much of a demand for females, given the breakdown of their student body…</p>
<p>One of my roommates knows someone who got accepted basically, but all of the freshmen females came back spring semester, so there wasn’t room for her, or something along those lines.</p>
<p>I think you should contact W&M, and ask them if you really have to apply again, if they can’t just consider the application you previously sent.</p>
<p>I was just thinking that it might be because of hurricane Katrina: maybe since they were housing displaced students there wasn’t any room for spring transfers? Do you think? I hope that was the case. </p>
<p>Do you know if the someone who got “accepted basically” actually got an acceptance letter? Something more than “there is no room for females”? Oooh, I’m scared. Maybe that means I was really rejected…<br>
I hope its not impossible to transfer in the spring!</p>
<p>I can try and find out for you</p>
<p>hurricane Katrina might have had something to do with it. I personally know 1 person who spent the fall at W&M when Tulane was closed, and is staying at W&M, so i’m sure there are more, though probably not too many.</p>
<p>ok, my roommate said that they people (or person?) he knows were “rejected”, but the letter implied that it was because there wasn’t room.</p>
<p>thanks for asking!<br>
I emailed William and Mary and they said that the problem was with freshman transfers. Apparently they have to house freshman applicants but if you apply as a sophomore or junior you have more of a chance of getting accepted w/out housing. I’m a sophomore now so thats good news.
…finding housing in williamsburg one month before move-in, however, might be a challenge.</p>