You’ve put in so much work to get your college applications out in stellar shape, and now admissions officers across the country are working hard to get you their decisions. With increases in applications for highly selective colleges this year, some of those admissions officers are working harder than ever, and some have had to delay their regular decision notification dates to review each application carefully. We know you’re eager to get your results!
See the table below for a list of approximate notification dates so you can step away from your inbox and your online portals until it’s time for a decision.* And check back for updates!
A special note on “Ivy Day”
Each year, the Ivy League colleges and universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale) release their regular admissions decisions at the same time. Typically, Ivy Day is sometime in late March, but with the increase in applications following test-optional policies, they have extended the deadline to allow time for proper review. This year, Ivy Day is April 6th at 7pm ET. They have also extended the deadline for admitted students to make their enrollment decisions to 11:59pm ET on May 3rd.
If you’ve applied regular decision to one of the Ivy League schools, you’ll probably want to login and see your results at 7pm on the dot. And by all means, do! Just understand that there will be a lot of site traffic to the online portals for these schools at that time, and historically, this has led to longer-than-usual loading times and even website crashes. If this happens to you, and you can’t get your decision immediately, take a deep breath and consider stepping away for an hour or two to unwind and let the traffic clear out.
And as these decisions come out, don’t forget to use our tips for handling admissions decisions! Good luck, seniors!
| School | Regular Decision Notification Date |
|---|---|
| American University | March 17 3pm ET |
| Amherst College | March 29 |
| Babson College | March 19 |
| Bard College | March 16 |
| Barnard College | March 31 7pm ET |
| Boston College | March 25 |
| Boston University | March 27 |
| Bowdoin College | March 19 7pm ET |
| Brandeis University | March 18 |
| Brown University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Bryn Mawr College | Late March |
| Bucknell University | March 17 9pm ET |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | March 6 |
| Carleton College | March 18 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | March 27 |
| Case Western Reserve University | March 27 |
| Claremont McKenna College | March 25 5pm ET |
| Colby College | March 15 |
| Colgate University | March 24 8:14pm ET |
| College of William and Mary | April 1 |
| Columbia University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Cornell University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Dartmouth College | April 6 7pm ET |
| Davidson College | March 27 |
| Dickinson College | March 15 |
| Duke University | Late March |
| Elon University | March 20 |
| Emerson College | March 16 |
| Emory University | March 24 6pm ET |
| Fordham University | March 15 |
| Franklin and Marshall College | March 16 7pm ET |
| George Washington University | Late March |
| Georgetown University | April 1 |
| Grinnell College | March 12 |
| Hamilton College | March 18 |
| Harvard University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Harvey Mudd College | March 18 6pm PT |
| Haverford College | March 19 7pm ET |
| Johns Hopkins University | March 19 3pm ET |
| Kenyon College | March 17 |
| Lafayette College | Mailed March 19 |
| Lehigh University | Late March |
| Loyola Marymount University | March 9 |
| Macalester College | March 31 |
| Miami University (Ohio) | March 15th 12pm ET |
| Middlebury College | March 27 |
| MIT | March 14, 2021 at 6:28 pm ET |
| Mount Holyoke College | Late March |
| New York University (NYU) | March 31 |
| Northeastern University | March 17 |
| Northwestern University | March 26 |
| Oberlin | March 20 |
| Pomona College | March 25 |
| Princeton University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Reed College | March 15 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) | March 6 |
| Rice University | April 1 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) | mid-March |
| Santa Clara University | March 18 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | March 17 |
| Scripps College | April 1 |
| Smith College | Late March |
| Southern Methodist University (SMU) | mid-March |
| Stanford University | April 9 |
| Swarthmore College | March 19 7pm ET |
| Syracuse University | March 22 |
| Tufts University | late March |
| Tulane University | April 1 |
| UC Berkeley | March 25 |
| UC Davis | mid-March |
| UCLA | March 19 |
| UC San Diego | March 31 |
| UC Santa Barbara | March 16 After 6pm ET |
| University of Chicago | March 12 |
| University of Connecticut (UConn) | March 1 |
| University of Massachussetts-Amherst | Begins Early March |
| University of Miami | April 1 |
| University of Michigan | April 2 |
| University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | March 31 |
| University of Notre Dame | March 26 6:42pm ET |
| University of Pennsylvania | April 6 7pm ET |
| University of Richmond | March 12 |
| University of Rochester | April 1 |
| University of San Francisco | mid-March |
| University of Southern California (USC) | March 30 |
| University of Virginia | April 1 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | March 31 |
| Vanderbilt University | April 1 |
| Vassar College | March 31 |
| Villanova University | March 25 4pm ET |
| Wake Forest University | last week of March |
| Washington and Lee University | April 1 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | March 24 |
| Wellesley College | March 20 |
| Wesleyan University | Late March |
| Williams College | March 25 |
| Yale University | April 6 7pm ET |
*Where specific dates are given, they are subject to change by the college or university; some dates are “by” dates, so decisions may come out earlier than the date listed.
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