<p>It’s actually fairly commonplace for schools who admit transfers to have higher admission rates for transfer students. 1) The applicant pool is tiny comparatively. 2) In W&M’s case, our acceptance rate for freshmen is based on the fact that all freshmen must be housed on campus and we only have so many beds. Thus we can only accept so many students. We do not have to house transfers and therefore we can accept more of them. 3) Our enrollment goals of late have pushed for more transfer admission. As a public university we have made an effort to reach out more especially to in-state transfers from VA community colleges.</p>