As you’re entering your last semester of high school, colleges and universities are reviewing applications and deciding who to admit to the class of 2026. With the big push to complete your college applications behind you, you’re probably anxious to know the results. Within the next couple of months, schools will be notifying applicants of their admission status, and keeping track of when these notifications are released can get overwhelming. We’ve put together a list of Regular Decision notification dates in the table below to take some of the mystery out of this pivotal moment. Check back regularly for updates!
| School | 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 |
| Baylor University | April 10 |
| Bentley University | Late March |
| 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 by 5pm ET |
| Colby College | March 15 |
| Colgate University | March 24 8:13pm ET |
| College of Charleston | March 1 |
| College of William and Mary | April 1 |
| Columbia University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Cooper Union | April 1 |
| Cornell University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Dartmouth College | April 6 7pm ET |
| Davidson College | March 27 |
| Dickinson College | March 15 |
| Duke University | Late March |
| Eckerd College | rolling admissions; within four weeks after 11/15 |
| 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 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | TBA |
| Gonzaga University | late February |
| 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 |
| Indiana University - Bloomington | March 15 |
| 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 |
| Loyola University New Orleans | April 1 |
| 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 |
| Pennsylvania State University | If completed by 12/1, decision 1/31; if completed after 12/1, rolling admission |
| Pomona College | March 25 |
| Princeton University | April 6 7pm ET |
| Reed College | March 15 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) | March 6 |
| Rhodes College | March 15 |
| Rice University | April 1 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) | mid-March |
| Rutgers University | March 31 |
| 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 |
| Texas Christian University (TCU) | April 1 |
| 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | mid-February |
| 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 Texas - Austin | March 1 |
| University of Vermont | early March |
| University of Virginia | April 1 |
| University of Washington | March 1-15 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | March 31 |
| Vanderbilt University | April 1 |
| Vassar College | March 31 |
| Villanova University | March 25 4pm ET |
| Virginia Institute of Technology (Virginia Tech) | Early March |
| 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 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | April 1 |
| Yale University | April 6 7pm ET |
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