(630) 841-3193Are you ready for regular decision notification dates? Admissions offices across the US are working hard to get through hundreds of thousands of regular decision college applications for the class of 2026 in order to notify students of their decisions by the spring.
Generally, most colleges aim to have regular admission decisions ready by the end of March. Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of changes to the admissions cycle, including extended regular decision deadlines, which impacted decision dates. Even the Ivy League schools pushed their regular decision release dates back to April 6th in 2021. This year, many colleges are aiming to announce decisions closer to their regular timing, which means March release dates will be more common.
Last year, many colleges reported record-high increases in early applications, and it’s likely that this trend will continue into 2022. Consequently, it’s important to keep track of every component of the admissions process, including regular application decision notification dates for the class of 2026.
Many of these dates are general, so expect these dates to change as we draw closer to mid-March.
College/ University | Regular Decision Notification Date |
American University | Mid-March |
Amherst College | March 20 |
Babson College | Mid-March |
Bard College | |
Barnard College | |
Bates College | By April 1 |
Boston College | By April 1 |
Boston University | Late March |
Bowdoin College | By April 1 |
Brandeis University | |
Brown University | Early April |
Bryn Mawr College | By April 1 |
Bucknell University | By April 1 |
California Institute of Technology | By March 31 |
Carleton College | By April 1 |
Carnegie Mellon University | By April 1 |
Case Western Reserve University | |
Claremont McKenna College | By April 1 |
Colby College | By April 1 |
Colgate University | By Late March |
College of Charleston | |
College of William & Mary | By April 1 |
Columbia University | By April |
Connecticut College | Late March |
Cornell University | Early April |
Dartmouth College | Late March or Early April |
Davidson College | By April 1 |
Drexel University | |
Duke University | Late March or Early April |
Emerson College | |
Emory University | By April 1 |
Fordham University | Rolling after March 15 |
Franklin & Marshall | By April 1 |
George Washington University | By early April |
Georgetown University | By April 1 |
Georgia Institute of Technology | |
Goucher College | |
Grinnell College | By April 1 |
Hamilton College | Late March |
Harvard University | End of March |
Harvey Mudd College | |
Haverford College | Early April |
Holy Cross | Mid-March |
James Madison University | |
Johns Hopkins University | Late March or Early April |
Kenyon College | Mid-March |
Lehigh University | Late March |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mid March |
Middlebury College | Late March |
Mount Holyoke College | Late March |
New York University | By April 1 |
Northeastern University | By April 1 |
Northwestern University | Late March |
Occidental College | By April 1 |
Oberlin College | By April 1 |
Pitzer College | By April 1 |
Pomona College | By April 1 |
Princeton University | Early April |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
Rhode Island School of Design | |
Rice University | By April 1 |
Rochester Institute of Technology | By mid-March |
Santa Clara University | By April 1 |
Sarah Lawrence College | Late March |
Skidmore College | |
Smith College | Late March |
Southern Methodist University | By March 1 |
Stanford University | By April 1 |
Swarthmore College | |
Syracuse University | Late March |
Tufts University | By April 1 |
Tulane University | By April 1 |
University of California-Berkeley | Late March |
University of California-Davis | Late March |
University of California-Los Angeles | |
University of California-San Diego | Late March |
University of California – Santa Barbara | Late March |
University of Chicago | Late March |
University of Georgia | |
University of Maryland-College Park | By April 1 |
University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
University of Miami | By April 1 |
University of Michigan | By March |
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | By Mid-April |
University of Notre Dame | Late March |
University of Pennsylvania | Late March Early April |
University of Richmond | By April 1 |
University of the South (Sewanee) | Early March |
University of Southern California | By April 1 |
University of Virginia | By April 1 |
Vanderbilt University | By April 1 |
Vassar College | Late March |
Villanova University | By April 1 |
Wake Forest University | By April 1 |
Washington and Lee University | |
Washington University in St. Louis | By April 1 |
Wellesley College | Late March |
Wesleyan University | Late March |
Williams College | By April 1 |
Worcester Polytechnic University | By April 1 |