Dates for Regular Admission Decisions

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:37:26 -0600

Are 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	End of March
Barnard College	Late March
Bates College	By April 1
Boston College	By April 1
Boston University	Late March
Bowdoin College	By April 1
Brandeis University	April 1
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	March 19
Claremont McKenna College	By April 1
Colby College	By April 1
Colgate University	By Late March
College of Charleston	March 1
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	By April 1
Duke University	Late March or Early April
Emerson College	April 1
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	TBA
Goucher College	Rolling notifications
Grinnell College	By April 1
Hamilton College	Late March
Harvard University	End of March
Harvey Mudd College	March 18
Haverford College	Early April
Holy Cross	Mid-March
James Madison University	Mid/Late March
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	March 12
Rhode Island School of Design	Mid-March
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	Mid-March
Smith College	Late March
Southern Methodist University	By March 1
Stanford University	By April 1
Swarthmore College	Mid-March
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	Late March
University of California-San Diego	Late March
University of California – Santa Barbara	Late March
University of Chicago	Late March
University of Georgia	March 19
University of Maryland-College Park	By April 1
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Early March
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	April 1
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

Many of these dates are general, so expect these dates to change as we draw closer to mid-March.

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Dates for Regular Admission Decisions