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 2026 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. Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of changes to the admissions cycle, including extended regular decision deadlines, which impacted decision dates. Even the Ivy League schools pushed their regular decision release dates back to April 6th in 2021. This year, many colleges are aiming to announce decisions closer to their regular timing, which means March release dates will be more common.

Last year, many colleges reported record-high increases in early applications, and it’s likely that this trend will continue into 2022. Consequently, it’s important to keep track of every component of the admissions process, including regular application decision notification dates for the class of 2026.

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	March 16, 2022 at 4pm ET
Amherst College	March 18, 2022
Babson College	March 18, 2022 at 4 pm ET
Bard College	End of March
Barnard College	March 30, 2022 at 7 pm ET
Bates College	March 12, 2022
Boston College	March 24, 2022
Boston University	March 26, 2022
Bowdoin College	March 18, 2022
Brandeis University	March 24, 2022
Brown University	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET (Ivy Day)
Bryn Mawr College	By April 1
Bucknell University	March 16, 2022 around 9pm ET
California Institute of Technology	March 12, 2022
Carleton College	March 18, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University	March 26, 2022
Case Western Reserve University	March 19, 2022
Claremont McKenna College	March 24, 2022
Colby College	March 18, 2022
Colgate University	March 23, 2022 at 8:13pm ET
College of Charleston	March 1
College of William & Mary	By April 1
Columbia University	March 31, 2022 after 7 pm ET
Connecticut College	March 19, 2022
Cornell University	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET
Dartmouth College	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET (Ivy Day)
Davidson College	March 26, 2022 at 10am ET
Drexel University	March 17, 2022
Duke University	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET
Emerson College	April 1
Emory University	March 30, 2022 at 6 pm ET
Fordham University	Rolling after March 15
Franklin & Marshall	By April 1
George Washington University	March 28, 2022 in the evening
Georgetown University	March 29, 2022 at 7 pm ET
Georgia Institute of Technology	March 25, 2022 at 7pm ET
Goucher College	Rolling notifications
Grinnell College	By April 1
Hamilton College	March 8, 2022 at 8pm ET
Harvard University	March 31, 2022 after 7 pm ET
Harvey Mudd College	March 18, 2022
Haverford College	Early April
Holy Cross	Mid-March
James Madison University	Mid/Late March
Johns Hopkins University	March 18, 2022
Kenyon College	Mid-March
Lehigh University	Late March
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	March 14, 2022 at 6:28pm ET
Middlebury College	Late March
Mount Holyoke College	Late March
New York University	March 30, 2022 at 4 pm ET
Northeastern University	March 16, 2022 in the evening
Northwestern University	March 25, 2022
Occidental College	By April 1
Oberlin College	March 19, 2022 at 12pm ET
Pitzer College	By April 1
Pomona College	March 18, 2022 at 5 pm PT
Princeton University	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET (Ivy Day)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	March 12, 2022
Rhode Island School of Design	Mid-March
Rice University	March 24, 2022 after 5:00pm CT
Rochester Institute of Technology	By mid-March
Santa Clara University	By April 1
Sarah Lawrence College	Late March
Skidmore College	March 16, 2022
Smith College	March 25, 2022
Southern Methodist University	By March 1
Stanford University	April 1, 2022 at 4pm PDT
Swarthmore College	March 18, 2022 at 7pm ET
Syracuse University	Late March
Trinity College	March 14, 2022 in the evening
Tufts University	March 29, 2022 at 7pm ET
Tulane University	March 30, 2022 at 4 pm CT
University of California-Berkeley	March 24, 2022
University of California-Davis	Late March
University of California-Los Angeles	Late March
University of California-San Diego	March 18, 2022
University of California – Santa Barbara	March 22, 2022 around 3pm PT
University of Chicago	March 12, 2022
University of Georgia	March 19, 2022
University of Maryland-College Park	By April 1
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Early March
University of Miami	By April 1
University of Michigan	By March
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	March 25, 2022
University of Notre Dame	March 17, 2022 at 6:42pm ET
University of Pennsylvania	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET (Ivy Day)
University of Richmond	By April 1
University of the South (Sewanee)	Early March
University of Southern California	By April 1
University of Virginia	March 18, 2022 after office hours
Vanderbilt University	March 28, 2022 after 5pm CT
Vassar College	Late March
Villanova University	By April 1
Wake Forest University	By April 1
Washington and Lee University	April 1
Washington University in St. Louis	March 24, 2022 in the afternoon
Wellesley College	Late March
Wesleyan University	March 26, 2022
Williams College	By April 1
William & Mary University	March 26, 2022
Worcester Polytechnic University	March 23, 2022 at 5pm EST
Yale University	March 31, 2022 at 7 pm ET (Ivy Day)

 

 

 

 

 

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!