Updated: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Are you ready for Regular Decision notification dates? Admissions offices across the U.S. are working hard to get through hundreds of thousands of Regular Decision college applications for the class of 2029 in order to notify students of their decisions this spring.
he college admissions landscape continues to be competitive at the country’s most popular universities. NYU recently reported receiving a record-high 120,000+ applications for the class of 2029, and more schools are sure to report record numbers. Some schools like Santa Clara University, Duke University, and the University of Georgia saw record-high numbers of students applying Early Decision or Early Action. With large applicant pools, it is likely we will see admission rates at these schools remain low or even decrease. This also might lead to more waitlist decisions as colleges continue to try to manage their yields.
Most admissions decisions are released in late March. Students typically receive a notification from each individual school they applied to, either by email or in their application portal, when decisions are ready to be viewed. Below we have a comprehensive list of admission decision notification dates.
The Ivy League schools tend to release admissions decisions on the same day. We will continue to independently confirm that release date and update this post as more information becomes available.
Below, we have aggregated the most requested decision release dates. See a school we left out or an updated release date we haven’t included yet? Tell us in the comments below and we will add it to our list!
Many of these dates are general, so continue to check back regularly for more specific updates about when college admissions decisions will be released. Keep an eye on those with a general time frame (mid/late March, early April, etc.). It is also possible for colleges to post a release date only to move it, so all these dates are subject to change.
| School | 2024-25 (Class of 2029) Regular Decision Notification Date | 2023-24 (Class of 2028) Regular Decision Notification Date |
| American University | April 1 | March 14, 2024 |
| Amherst College | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Babson College | Mid-March | March 15, 2024 |
| Bard College | Late March | Late March |
| Barnard College | Late March | March 27, 2024 |
| Bates College | By April 1 | March 16, 2024 |
| Boston College | By April 1 | March 21, 2024 |
| Boston University | Late March | March 23, 2024 |
| Bowdoin College | Mid-March | March 22, 2024 |
| Brandeis University | April 1 | March 21, 2024 |
| Brown University | By early April | March 28, 2024 |
| Bryn Mawr College | Mid-March | March 20, 2024 |
| Bucknell University | By April 1 | March 14, 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | Mid-March 2025 | March 9, 2024 |
| Carleton College | On or before April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | No later than April 1 | March 15, 2024 on a rolling basis |
| Case Western Reserve University | On or about March 22, 2025 | March 16, 2024 |
| Chapman University | Mid-March | March 8, 2024 |
| Claremont McKenna College | By April 1 | March 22. 2024 |
| Colby College | On or before April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Colgate University | March 21, 2025 | March 22, 2024 |
| College of Charleston | Mid-March | Approximately March 1 |
| College of the Holy Cross | Mid-March | March 17, 2024 |
| College of William & Mary | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Colorado College | March 13 | Mid-March |
| Columbia University | Late March | March 28, 2024 |
| Connecticut College | Late March | March 17, 2024 |
| Cornell University | Late March | March 28, 2024 |
| Dartmouth College | Late March/Early April | March 28, 2024 |
| Davidson College | By April 1 | March 23, 2024 |
| Drexel University | By April 1 | March 21, 2024 |
| Duke University | Late March/Early April | March 28, 2024 |
| Emerson College | Early April | March 14, 2024 |
| Emory University | By April 1 | March 27, 2024 |
| Fairfield University | April 1 | March 14, 2024 |
| Fordham University | April 1 | March 16, 2024 |
| George Washington University | By April 1 | March 25, 2024 |
| Georgetown University | No later than April 1 | March 27, 2024 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | In-state: Early March Out-of-State: Late March |
In-state: March 1, 2024 Out-of-state: March 22, 2024 |
| Grinnell College | Late March/Early April | March 29, 2023 |
| Hamilton College | Late March | March 27, 2024 |
| Harvard University | End of March | March 28, 2024 |
| Harvey Mudd College | April 1 | March 20, 2024 |
| Haverford College | Late March | March 16, 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | March 21, 2025 | March 20, 2024 |
| Lafayette College | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Lehigh University | Late March | March 22. 2024 |
| Macalester College | March | March 17, 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mid-March | March 14, 2024 |
| Middlebury College | Late March | March 16, 2024 |
| New York University | April 1 | March 28, 2024 |
| Northeastern University | By April 1 | March 13, 2024 |
| Northwestern University | March | March 27, 2024 |
| Pepperdine University | April 1 | March 16, 2024 |
| Pitzer College | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Pomona College | By April 1 | March 15, 2024 |
| Princeton University | Late March | March 28, 2024 |
| Providence College | By April 1 | March 18, 2024 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | March 8, 2025 | Mid-March |
| Rice University | By April 1 | March 26, 2024 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Mid-March | Mid-March |
| Santa Clara University | By April 1 | March 18, 2024 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | Late March | March 7, 2024 |
| Skidmore College | Mid-March | March 17, 2024 |
| Smith College | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Southern Methodist University | Mid-March | March 14, 2024 |
| Stanford University | Early April | March 29, 2024 |
| Swarthmore College | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Syracuse University | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Texas Christian University | By April 1 | March 8, 2024 |
| Trinity College | Late March | March 21, 2024 |
| Tufts University | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Tulane University | By April 1 | March 8, 2024 |
| University of California, Berkeley | March 27, 2025 | March 28, 2024 |
| University of California, Davis | Mid-March | March 8, 2024 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Late March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of California, San Diego | Mid-March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Mid-March | March 19, 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Late March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Florida | March 14, 2025 | February 23, 2024 |
| University of Georgia | Mid-March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | by April 1 | By April 1 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | March | International Students: February 22, 2024 Domestic Students: March 5, 2024 |
| University of Miami | By April 1 | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Michigan | Early April | March 29, 2024 |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | March 31 | March 22, 2024 |
| University of Notre Dame | Late March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Pennsylvania | By April | March 28, 2024 |
| University of Richmond | Mid-March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of the South (Sewanee) | Early March | Early March |
| University of Southern California | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| University of Tennessee | March 4, 2025 | February 29, 2024 |
| University of Texas at Austin | February 7, 2025 for most students | February 15 |
| University of Vermont | Early March | March 8, 2024 |
| University of Virginia | By April 1 | March 15, 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Late March | March 27, 2024 |
| Vassar College | Late March/Early April | March 26, 2024 |
| Villanova University | By April 1 | March 20, 2024 |
| Wake Forest University | Around April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Washington & Lee University | April 1, 2025 | March 22, 2024 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | By April 1 | March 20, 2024 |
| Wellesley College | Late March | March 16, 2024 |
| Wesleyan University | Late March | March 20, 2024 |
| Williams College | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Late March | March 18, 2024 |
| Yale University | By April 1 | March 28, 2024 |
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