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Updated: Friday, September 27, 2024

Class of 2028 Regular Decision Notification Dates

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 2028 in order to notify students of their decisions this spring. 

Class of 2028 Admissions 

The college admissions landscape continues to be competitive at the country’s most popular universities, with many schools posting record-high application numbers for the class of 2028. Schools like Yale (57,512), Bowdoin (~13,200), and the University of Texas at Austin (~73,000) all reported their largest applicant pools ever. Some schools like Barnard College, Duke University, and the University of Virginia 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.

When Do Colleges Release Admissions Decisions? 

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.

When Is Ivy Day 2024? 

Right now, Ivy Day is estimated to be Thursday, March 28, 2024. 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.

2024 Admissions Decision Release Dates 

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 Regular Decision Notification Date
American University March 14, 2024
Amherst College March 22, 2024
Babson College March 15, 2024
Bard College Late March
Barnard College March 27, 2024 at 7pm ET
Bates College March 16, 2024
Boston College March 21, 2024 after 5pm EST
Boston University March 23, 2024
Bowdoin College March 22, 2024
Brandeis University March 21, 2024
Brown University March 28, 2024
Bryn Mawr College March 20, 2024
Bucknell University March 14, 2024
California Institute of Technology March 9, 2024
Carleton College March 22, 2024 at 8pm CT
Carnegie Mellon University March 15, 2024 on a rolling basis
Case Western Reserve University March 16, 2024 at 12pm ET (confirmed via email)
Chapman University March 8, 2024
Claremont McKenna College March 22. 2024
Colby College March 22, 2024
Colgate University March 22, 2024 at 7:13pm ET
College of Charleston Approximately March 1
College of the Holy Cross March 17, 2024
College of William & Mary March 22, 2024
Colorado College Mid-March
Columbia University March 28, 2024 at 7pm ET (confirmed via email)
Connecticut College March 17, 2024
Cornell University March 28, 2024 at 7pm ET
Dartmouth College March 28, 2024
Davidson College March 23, 2024
Drexel University March 21, 2024
Duke University March 28, 2024 at 7pm ET
Emerson College March 14, 2024
Emory University March 27, 2024 after 6pm ET
Fairfield University March 14, 2024 at 6pm ET (confirmed via email)
Fordham University March 16, 2024
Franklin & Marshall By April 1
George Washington University March 25, 2024
Georgetown University March 27, 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology In-state: March 1, 2024 at 7pm ET
Out-of-state: March 22, 2024 at 7pm
Grinnell College March 29, 2023
Hamilton College March 27, 2024 at 8pm ET
Harvard University March 28, 2024
Harvey Mudd College March 20, 2024 at 6pm PDT
Haverford College March 16, 2024
James Madison University March 7, 2024
Johns Hopkins University March 20, 2024
Kenyon College March 14, 2024
Lafayette College March 22, 2024
Lehigh University March 22. 2024
Macalester College March 17, 2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 14, 2024 at 6:28pm ET
Middlebury College March 16, 2024
Mount Holyoke College March 20, 2024
New York University March 28, 2024 at 4pm ET (confirmed via email)
Northeastern University March 13, 2024
Northwestern University March 27, 2024
Occidental College April 1
Oberlin College March 23, 2024 (confirmed via email)
Pepperdine University March 16, 2024
Pitzer College March 22, 2024
Pomona College March 15, 2024 at 5pm
Princeton University March 28, 2024 at 7pm ET
Providence College March 18, 2024
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mid-March
Rice University March 26, 2024
Rochester Institute of Technology Mid-March
Santa Clara University March 18, 2024
Sarah Lawrence College March 7, 2024 (confirmed via email)
Skidmore College March 17, 2024
Smith College March 22, 2024
Southern Methodist University March 14, 2024
Stanford University March 29, 2024 at 4pm PT
Swarthmore College March 22, 2024 at 7pm ET
Syracuse University March 22, 2024
Texas Christian University March 8, 2024
Trinity College March 21, 2024
Tufts University March 22, 2024 at 7pm ET
Tulane University March 8, 2024 at 4pm CT
University of California, Berkeley March 28, 2024
University of California, Davis March 8, 2024
University of California, Los Angeles March 15, 2024
University of California, San Diego March 15, 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara March 19, 2024 after 3pm
University of Chicago March 15, 2024 in the late afternoon
University of Florida February 23, 2024 at 6pm ET
University of Georgia March 15, 2024 at 4pm ET
University of Maryland, College Park By April 1
University of Massachusetts, Amherst International Students: February 22, 2024
Domestic Students: March 5, 2024
University of Miami March 15, 2024
University of Michigan March 29, 2024
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill March 22, 2024
University of Notre Dame March 15, 2024 at 6:42pm ET
University of Pennsylvania March 28, 2024
University of Richmond March 15, 2024
University of the South (Sewanee) Early March
University of Southern California March 22, 2024
University of Tennessee February 29, 2024
University of Vermont March 8, 2024
University of Virginia March 15, 2024
Vanderbilt University March 27, 2024
Vassar College March 26, 2024
Villanova University March 20, 2024
Wake Forest University March 22, 2024
Washington and Lee University March 22, 2024 at 8pm ET
Washington University in St. Louis March 20, 2024
Wellesley College March 16, 2024
Wesleyan University March 20, 2024
Williams College March 22, 2024
Worcester Polytechnic Institute March 18, 2024
Yale University March 28, 2024

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