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 2027 in order to notify students of their decisions this spring.
Class of 2027 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 2027. Schools like the University of Virginia (55.845), University of Pennsylvania (59,00+), NYU (~120,000), and Bowdoin (10,934) all reported their largest applicant pools ever, with some schools like Boston University seeing 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 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 – especially for those labeled “TBD” or 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 up or postpone it to a later date, so these dates are subject to change.
| School | Regular Decision Notification Date |
| Amherst College | Around March 20 |
| Babson College | By Mid-March |
| Bard College | Late March |
| Barnard College | Late March |
| Bates College | By April 1 |
| Boston College | By April 1 |
| Boston University | Late March |
| Bowdoin College | Mid-March |
| Brandeis University | April 1 |
| Brown University | March 30 |
| Bryn Mawr College | Late March |
| Bucknell University | By April 1 |
| California Institute of Technology | Mid-March |
| Carleton College | By April 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | By April 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | March 18 |
| Claremont McKenna College | By April 1 |
| Colby College | On or before April 1 |
| Colgate University | Late March |
| College of Charleston | March 1 |
| College of William & Mary | By April 1 |
| Columbia University | Early April |
| Connecticut College | Late March |
| Cornell University | Early April |
| Dartmouth College | Late March |
| Davidson College | By April 1 |
| Drexel University | By April 1 |
| Duke University | Late March |
| Emerson College | Early April |
| Emory University | By April 1 |
| Fordham University | By April 1 |
| Franklin & Marshall | By April 1 |
| George Washington University | By April 1 |
| Georgetown University | No later than April 1 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgia students: March 3 Non-Georgia students: late March |
| Goucher College | By April 1 |
| Grinnell College | Late March/Early April |
| Hamilton College | Late March |
| Harvard University | By the end of March |
| Harvey Mudd College | April 1 |
| Haverford College | Early April |
| Holy Cross | Mid-March |
| James Madison University | Mid-Late March |
| Johns Hopkins University | March 17 |
| Kenyon College | Mid-March |
| Lehigh University | Late March |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mid-March |
| Middlebury College | Late March |
| Mount Holyoke College | Late March |
| New York University | April 1 |
| Northeastern University | By April 1 |
| Northwestern University | March 24, 2023 |
| Occidental College | April 1 |
| Oberlin College | April 1 |
| Pitzer College | By April 1 |
| Pomona College | By April 1 |
| Princeton University | By March 31 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Mid-March |
| Rhode Island School of Design | Mid-March |
| Rice University | By April 1 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Mid-March |
| Santa Clara University | By April 1 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | By late March |
| Skidmore College | Mid-March |
| Southern Methodist University | By March 15 |
| Stanford University | By early April |
| Swarthmore College | Mid-March |
| Syracuse University | By March 15 |
| Trinity College | By March 15 |
| Tufts University | By April 1 |
| Tulane University | April 1 |
| University of California-Berkeley | March 30 |
| University of California-Davis | Mid-March |
| University of California-Los Angeles | Between March 1 and March 31 |
| University of California-San Diego | Between March 1 and March 31 |
| University of California – Santa Barbara | Mid-March |
| University of Chicago | Late March |
| University of Georgia | Early March |
| University of Maryland-College Park | By April 1 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Late March |
| University of Miami | By April 1 |
| University of Michigan | By early April |
| University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | By March 31 |
| University of Notre Dame | By Late March |
| University of Pennsylvania | Late March/early April |
| University of Richmond | By April 1 |
| University of the South (Sewanee) | Mid-March |
| University of Southern California | By April 1 |
| University of Virginia | By April 1 |
| Vanderbilt University | Late March |
| Vassar College | April 1 |
| Villanova University | By April 1 |
| Wake Forest University | Around April 1 |
| Washington and Lee University | By April 1 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | By April 1 |
| Wellesley College | Late March |
| Wesleyan University | Late March |
| Williams College | By April 1 |
| William & Mary University | By Late March |
| Worcester Polytechnic University | By April 1 |
| Yale University | By April 1 |
