***CORRECTION: In this article, The Daily inaccurately stated that Princeton University halted transfer admissions in 2005. In actuality, Princeton established a policy of not accepting transfer students around 1990.***

In light of Harvard College’s recent announcement that it will suspend transfer admission for the next two years, Stanford will remain committed to continuing transfer application cycles, Director of Admission Shawn Abbott told The Daily yesterday.

Princeton University has been halting transfer admission since 2005. Princeton’s then-Associate Dean of Admission Keith Light attributed his school’s 2005 decision to “larger than expected first-year enrollments, coupled with a very low attrition rate.”

Harvard’s move, which was announced in the middle of the current admission cycle for transfer applicants, came in response to a lack of undergraduate housing for admits, according to the university’s admission site.

Abbott told The Daily that although Stanford faces a housing crunch, it will continue its transfer admission process.

“Space is tight at Stanford too, and our unprecedented yield of 70 [percent] last year only exacerbates our situation,” Abbott said in an email. “Nevertheless, we remain committed to enrolling new transfers every year — especially a cohort from community colleges.”

Abbott said the Office of Admission plans to enroll 40 transfer students for the fall 2008 quarter.

The decision to end transfer admissions at Harvard comes as the school announced the results of its regular application round, in which only 7.1 percent of applicants were admitted.

Harvard also announced Monday that 11 percent of its admitted applicants are of African American background, over 18.5 percent are Asian American, 9.7 percent are Latino and 1.3 percent is Native American. The Cambridge, Mass. university also said just over half of prospective freshmen are women.

Abbott, however, said a racial breakdown of the admitted class at Stanford — a record-low 9.5 percent of the 25,298 applicants — could not be provided to the public.

“We never release any racial breakdowns of the admitted freshman class,” he said. “It has been the University’s long-standing policy not to do this.”

Abbott did say that well over half of the 2,400 admits were students of color. The Office of Admission also announced in its Friday statement that 431 accepted students will be the first in their families to attend a four-year college or university.