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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. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes to the admissions cycle this year, including extended regular decision deadlines, which might affect decision dates. In fact, the Ivy League schools have already announced they will release regular decisions April 6 – almost a full week later than their usual timeline. Stanford has also pushed back their usual decision release date to April 9.

Because of the later decision notification date, all the Ivies have extended their reply by date to May 3, 2021.

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.)

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!