Saturday marked the deadline for transfer applicants to the University, but the Office of Admission won't know how many applications it received for a few weeks, Dean of Admission James Miller '73 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
"At the moment, we are fully focused on the Class of 2012, and won't turn our attention to the transfer pool for some time," Miller wrote in his e-mail. Decisions on regular applicants to the College will be mailed in the first week of April.
Students who are accepted to the University may choose to enter in either the fall or the spring semester, but March 1 is the universal deadline for all transfer applicants. In January, 22 mid-year transfers arrived on campus, while 56 matriculated in the fall.
Transfer applicants must have at least one year of college credit before matriculating but are discouraged from applying if they have more than two years of credit because Brown requires students spend a minimum of two years in residence at the University before granting a degree, according to the office's Web site.
The transfer acceptance pool has fluctuated in recent years. More than 150 students were accepted as recently as the 2005-06 school year.
Konstantin Kashin '10, who transferred from Cornell this fall, said he noticed the large fluctuations in the number of transfer applicants accepted in recent years but still thought, from his own transfer experience, that Brown accepted a reasonable number of transfer applicants. He said he would tell potential transfer applicants not to let the fluctuations deter them.
"You never know how those factors are going to add up," Kashin said.
Transfer hopefuls, such as Elspeth Boynton, a freshman at Duke University, will receive decisions in mid-May, according to the office's Web site. Boynton said she was drawn to Brown for its liberal atmosphere and its diversity. She said she did not enter Duke with the idea of transferring, but decided to transfer around September.
"It's one of those things where you're not sure if you want to go there until you get there," Boynton said.
Though Boynton said she thought she would be happy if she completed her four years at Duke, she realized she could be happier elsewhere. She said she likes Brown's close proximity to Boston and New York and the social atmosphere that does not emphasize the Greek system as much as Duke does.
She said she found Brown's transfer application relatively straightforward, especially since she completed the regular decision application her senior year of high school. She advised students thinking about transferring not to let the application process deter them, but to think carefully before beginning the process.
"Before deciding to transfer, make sure you've tried to make yourself happy first," she said.
