Class of 2025 Regular Decision Notification Dates
Here’s When Students Can Expect to Receive Regular Admission Decisions
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 2025 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. And even though the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes to the admissions cycle this year, including extending regular decision deadlines, we expect that decisions will be released on time.
The early admissions cycle gave us a peek into what the regular decision pool might look like, with many colleges reporting record-high increases in early applications. It is likely application increases at some of the top colleges in the US will be just as high in the regular decision round, making for a much more competitive admissions cycle than ever before. For more 2021 college admissions trends, check out our latest resource here.
Here are regular application decision notification dates for the class of 2025.
Many of these dates are general, so expect these dates to change as we draw closer to mid-March. It is also possible for colleges to post a release date only to move it up or postpone to a later date, so these dates are subject to change.
Check back regularly for updated date and times – especially for those labeled “TBD” or those with a general time frame (mid/late March, early April, etc.)
| School | Regular Decision Notification Date |
| American University | Late March |
| Amherst College | Late 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 | Early April |
| Brandeis University | April 1 |
| Brown University | End of March |
| Bryn Mawr College | End of March |
| Bucknell University | By April 1 |
| California Institute of Technology | Mid-March |
| Carleton College | By April 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | No later than April 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | March 20 |
| Claremont McKenna College | By April 1 |
| Colby College | On or before April 1 |
| Colgate University | Mid March |
| College of William & Mary | By April 1 |
| Columbia University | Late March |
| Connecticut College | Late March |
| Cornell University | Early April |
| Dartmouth College | Late March |
| Davidson College | March 20 |
| Drexel University | By April 1 |
| Duke University | Late March |
| Emerson College | April 1 |
| Emory University | By April 1 |
| Fordham University | By April 1 |
| Franklin & Marshall | By April 1 |
| George Washington University | By late March |
| Georgetown University | By April 1 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | By mid-March |
| Goucher College | Rolling notifications |
| Grinnell College | Late March/Early April |
| Hamilton College | Late March |
| Harvard University | Late March |
| Harvey Mudd College | April 1 |
| Haverford College | Early April |
| Holy Cross | Late March or Early April |
| James Madison University | Mid/Late March |
| Johns Hopkins University | By April 1 |
| Kenyon College | Mid-March |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mid-March |
| Middlebury College | Late March |
| New York University | By April 1 |
| Northeastern University | By April 1 |
| Northwestern University | Late March |
| Occidental College | Late March or Early April |
| Oberlin College | By April 1 |
| Pitzer College | By April 1 |
| Pomona College | By April 1 |
| Princeton University | April 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | March 6 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | Mid-March |
| Rice University | By April 1 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | By mid-March |
| Sarah Lawrence College | By late March |
| Skidmore College | Mid-March |
| Smith College | By late March |
| Southern Methodist University | Mid-March |
| Stanford University | Late March/early April |
| Swarthmore College | Mid-March |
| Syracuse University | Late March |
| Tufts University | Mid-March |
| Tulane University | By April 1 |
| University of California-Berkeley | End of March |
| University of California-Davis | Mid-March |
| University of California-Los Angeles | Late March |
| University of California-San Diego | By March 31 |
| University of California – Santa Barbara | Mid-March |
| University of Chicago | Late March |
| University of Georgia | Mid-March |
| University of Maryland-College Park | Late March/early April |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Early March |
| University of Michigan | By early April |
| University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | End of March |
| University of Notre Dame | By late March |
| University of Pennsylvania | Late March/early April |
| University of Richmond | By April 1 |
| 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 late March |
| 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 |
| Yale University | Early March |
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!