Updated: Monday, March 17, 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.
The college admissions landscape continues to be competitive at the country’s most popular universities. Schools reporting record-high application numbers for the class of 2029 include both NYU and UC Davis at 120,000+ applications — 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. Both Dartmouth and Yale have announced March 27, 2025 as the date they will release Regular Decision notifications, so we can assume that the other Ivies will release on the same day. Decisions are typically released at 7pm ET.
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 | March 13, 2025 | March 14, 2024 |
| Amherst College | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Babson College | March 14, 2025 | 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 | March 18, 2025 (source: phone call) | 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 | March 13, 2025 at 7:30pm ET (source: phone call) | March 14, 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | March 8, 2025 at 10am PST | March 9, 2024 |
| Carleton College | March 13, 2025 | March 22, 2024 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | No later than April 1 | March 15, 2024 on a rolling basis |
| Case Western Reserve University | March 15, 2025 | March 16, 2024 |
| Chapman University | February 28, 2025 | 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 | February 27, 2025 | Approximately March 1 |
| College of the Holy Cross | March 12, 2025 | March 17, 2024 |
| College of William & Mary | By April 1 | March 22, 2024 |
| Colorado College | March 13, 2025 at 4pm MT | 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 | March 27, 2025 | March 28, 2024 |
| Davidson College | By April 1 | March 23, 2024 |
| Drexel University | March 4, 2025 | March 21, 2024 |
| Duke University | Late March/Early April | March 28, 2024 |
| Emerson College | March 11, 2025 | March 14, 2024 |
| Emory University | By April 1 | March 27, 2024 |
| Fairfield University | March 18, 2025 at 6pm ET | March 14, 2024 |
| Fordham University | March 14, 2025 | 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: March 7, 2025 Out-of-State: March 28, 2025 at 7pm ET |
In-state: March 1, 2024 Out-of-state: March 22, 2024 |
| Grinnell College | Late March/Early April | March 29, 2023 |
| Hamilton College | March 20, 2025 (source: phone call) | March 27, 2024 |
| Harvard University | End of March | March 28, 2024 |
| Harvey Mudd College | March 15, 2025 at 12pm PT | March 20, 2024 |
| Haverford College | March 14, 2025 | 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 16, 2025 | March 17, 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | March 14, 2025 at 6:28pm ET | March 14, 2024 |
| Middlebury College | March 15, 2025 (source: phone call) | March 16, 2024 |
| New York University | April 1 | March 28, 2024 |
| Northeastern University | March 12, 2025 | March 13, 2024 |
| Northwestern University | March 26, 2025 | 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 | March 11, 2025 | March 18, 2024 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | March 8, 2025 | Mid-March |
| Rice University | By April 1 | March 26, 2024 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | March 3, 2025 | Mid-March |
| Santa Clara University | By April 1 | March 18, 2024 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | March 6, 2025 | March 7, 2024 |
| Skidmore College | March 15, 2025 (source: phone call) | 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 | March 21, 2025 at 7pm ET | March 22, 2024 |
| Syracuse University | Late March | March 22, 2024 |
| Texas Christian University | March 7, 2025 | March 8, 2024 |
| Trinity College | Late March | March 21, 2024 |
| Tufts University | March 20, 2025 at 7pm ET | March 22, 2024 |
| Tulane University | February 28, 2025 | March 8, 2024 |
| University of California, Berkeley | March 27, 2025 | March 28, 2024 |
| University of California, Davis | March 7, 2025 | March 8, 2024 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Late March | March 15, 2024 |
| University of California, San Diego | March 14, 2025 | March 15, 2024 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | March 18, 2025 (source: phone call) | March 19, 2024 |
| University of Chicago | March 14, 2025 late afternoon | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Florida | March 14, 2025 at 5:30pm ET | February 23, 2024 |
| University of Georgia | March 14, 2025 | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | by April 1 | By April 1 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | International Students: February 21, 2025 Domestic Students: March 7, 2025 |
International Students: February 22, 2024 Domestic Students: March 5, 2024 |
| University of Miami | March 14, 2025 | 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 | March 18, 2025 at 6:42pm ET | March 15, 2024 |
| University of Pennsylvania | By April | March 28, 2024 |
| University of Richmond | March 14, 2025 at 7pm ET | March 15, 2024 |
| University of the South (Sewanee) | Early March | Early March |
| University of Southern California | March 26, 2025 | March 22, 2024 |
| University of Tennessee | March 4, 2025 (evening) | 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 | March 14, 2025 at 5pm ET | March 15, 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Late March | March 27, 2024 |
| Vassar College | Late March/Early April | March 26, 2024 |
| Villanova University | March 21, 2025 at 4pm ET | 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 | March 13, 2025 | March 20, 2024 |
| Wellesley College | Late March | March 16, 2024 |
| Wesleyan University | Late March | March 20, 2024 |
| Williams College | March 21, 2025 in the evening | March 22, 2024 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | March 13, 2025 at 5pm ET | March 18, 2024 |
| Yale University | March 27, 2025 | March 28, 2024 |
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