February 10, 2023

Congratulations! You’ve submitted all of your college applications. You’ve spent countless hours studying for the SAT, researching colleges, maintaining your GPA, and writing your personal statement. The hard part is over. Now the waiting begins.

There are a lot of important college admissions dates to keep track of, especially during the fall of your senior year, but when are regular decision notification dates? In this article, we will provide you with a comprehensive list of regular decision release dates.

You may also want to review our article on when college acceptance letters are sent out and what to do while you wait.

When does Regular Decision come out?

When will regular decisions be available? Regular decision notification dates occur several months after Early Action and Early Decision notification dates. This is because regular decision application deadlines occur several months later as well. That said, when exactly are regular decisions released?

Regular decision dates vary. Typically, though, regular decision notification dates occur from Mid-March to Early April. It is also worth noting that Ivy League colleges coordinate their release dates each year. Although this day changes year to year, Ivy League colleges always send out their decisions in unison.

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Regular Decision release dates 2023

Refer to the list of regular decision notification dates below. These dates will help you anticipate when you should hear back from colleges. Remember, colleges may postpone (or advance) their regular decision notification dates as spring approaches.

Name of College	Notification Date
Agnes Scott College	April 15th
Allegheny College	March 15th
American University	Mid-March
Amherst College	Late March
Babson College	Mid-March
Barnard College	March 31st
Bates College	April 1st
Boston College	April 1st
Boston University	Late March
Bowdoin College	April 1st
Brandeis University	April 1st
Brown University	March 31st
Bryn Mawr College	Late March
Bucknell University	April 1st
California Institute of Technology	Mid-March
Carleton College	April 1st
Carnegie Mellon University	April 1st
Case Western University	March 19th
Claremont McKenna College	April 1st
Colby College	April 1st
Colgate University	Late March
College of William & Mary	April 1st
Colorado College	Mid-March
Columbia University	Late March
Cornell University	Late March
Dartmouth College	Late March
Davidson College	April 1st
Denison University	April 1st
Dickinson College	Late March
Duke University	Late March
Emory University	April 1st
Fordham University	April 1st
Franklin and Marshall College	April 1st
Georgia Tech	Early March
George Washington University	Late March
Georgetown University	April 1st
Grinnell College	Late March
Hamilton College	Mid-March
Hampton University	Rolling Admissions
Harvard University	Late March
Harvey Mudd College	Late March
Haverford College	Late March
Howard University	Early April
Johns Hopkins University	Late March
Kenyon College	Late March
Lafayette College	Late March
Lehigh University	Late March
Macalester College	Late March
Middlebury College	Late March
MIT	Mid-March
Morehouse College	Mid-March
New York University	Late March
North Carolina State	Late March
Northeastern University	April 1st
Northwestern University	Late March
Pomona College	April 1st
Princeton University	Late March
Reed College	April 1st
Rice University	April 1st
Sarah Lawrence College	Late March
Scripps College	April 1st
Southern Methodist University	Mid-March
Spelman College	April 1st
Stanford University	Early April
Swarthmore College	Late March
Syracuse University	Late March
Tufts University	April 1st
Tulane University	April 1st
Tuskegee University	Rolling Admissions
University of California-Berkeley	Late March
University of California-Los Angeles	April 1st
University of Chicago	Mid-March
University of Colorado at Boulder	April 1st
University of Delaware	Rolling Admissions
University of Kentucky	Mid-March
University of Maryland	April 1st
University of Massachusetts Amherst	Early March
University of Miami	April 1st
University of Michigan	Early April
University of Minnesota	Late March
University of North Carolina	Late March
University of Notre Dame	Late March
University of Pennsylvania	Late March
University of Richmond	April 1st
University of Rochester	Late March
University of San Diego	April 1st
University of San Francisco	Mid-March
University of Southern California	April 1st
University of Texas	March 1st
University of Vermont	Early March
University of Virginia	April 1st
University of Wisconsin	Late March
Vanderbilt University	April 1st
Vassar College	April 5th
Villanova University	April 1st
Virginia Tech	Early March
Wake Forest	April 1st
Washington and Lee University	April 1st
Washington University in St. Louis	April 1st
Wellesley College	Late March
Wesleyan University	Late March
Wheaton College	Late March
Whitman College	April 1st
Willamette University	March 1st
Williams College	April 1st
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	April 1st
Yale University	Late March

Source: College Essay Advisors

May 1: National College Decision Day

Generally speaking, the latest you will hear back from a college is sometime during the first week of April. This is because May 1st is National College Decision Day. This means that unless you applied early, you must file your official college decision by May 1st.

Additionally, you will also want to let other colleges know that you will not be attending. Although not required, notifying other colleges helps them better manage their waitlist. In other words, whenever you officially decline an offer of admission, a college can offer your spot to another student.

What does being waitlisted mean?

There is a chance that you may not receive an acceptance or a rejection letter. Instead, you might receive a letter notifying you that you’ve been placed on a waitlist. This means that as admission slots open up, students placed on the waitlist will be admitted. The tricky thing about being placed on a waitlist is that you may not hear a final decision until August, right before school starts.

Being placed on a waitlist can feel confusing. Especially as you consider whether or not you want to remain on the waitlist. There are a lot of factors to consider, especially in regard to how being waitlisted might affect your financial

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aid. That’s why it’s important to understand what to do if you’ve been waitlisted. You’ll also want to review how to write an email to a college admissions office so that your correspondence continues to be professional and polished.

Key takeaways and moving forward

As college application season comes to a close, you’ll want to start focusing on scholarships and understanding the FAFSA. Not only are these important steps, but they are also great ways to spend your time as you wait to hear from colleges.

Hopefully, come springtime, you’ll be admitted to your top college. If not, you may want to review common reasons college applications may be rejected. College admissions are incredibly competitive and sometimes it can be comforting to know why your application may have been rejected.

If you aren’t satisfied with your college decisions, you may want to explore applying to schools with rolling admissions, especially if you wish you had more options. The main difference between regular decision vs rolling admission is that colleges with rolling admissions don’t have strict application deadlines the way that colleges with regular decision deadlines do. Rather, they continue to admit students as long as they have openings.