Class of 2020 Regular Decision Notification Dates

Here's When the College Class of 2020 Will Learn Their Admissions Decisions Looking for regular decision release dates for the Class of 2022? Click here! It’s March and there’s finally a light at the end of the admissions tunnel for anxious high school seniors – colleges will soon start releasing their regular admissions decisions! For those who applied early decision or early action this year the competition was stiff, with some colleges reporting slight dips in early admissions rates from the year before. The admissions season was relatively smooth this year, however, there are a lot of changes on the horizon for students applying to the class of 2021, with the revised SAT, the announcement of the Coalition Application, and a Harvard report that aimed to alleviate some college admissions stress. Boston College was one of the first schools this spring to announce their regular decision notification date – the week of March 14. While this is nearly two weeks earlier than the typical late-March or April 1 date most selective colleges choose, it’s not unusual for colleges to release decisions earlier in the month. As ususal, MIT had the most creative announcement this year, with special guest BB-8! Most colleges aim to have decisions ready by March 31 or April 1, but many choose to release decisions once they’re ready, which tends to be a week or two before the standard decision release date. Here are regular application decision notification dates for the Class of 2020. Many of these dates are general, so expect these dates to change as we draw closer to mid-March. Be sure to check back regularly for updated date and times – especially for those labeled â€Å"TBD† or those with a general timeframe (mid/late March, early April, March 31, or April 1). School Regular Decision Notification Date Amherst College March 25, 2016 in the evening Babson College March 18, 2016 at 3 pm EDT Barnard College March 24, 2016 at 7 pm EDT Bates College By April 1, 2016 Boston College Emailed the week of March 14, 2016 Boston University March 19, 2016 Bowdoin College March 18, 2016 Brandeis University March 17, 2016 Brown University March 31, 2016 Bucknell University March 25, 2016 Caltech March 12, 2016 Carleton College March 26, 2016 at 5 pm Carnegie Mellon University March 26, 2016 Claremont McKenna March 22, 2016 after 5 pm Colby College By April 1, 2016 Colgate University Mailed March 18, 2016 Columbia University March 31, 2016 after 5 pm EDT Connecticut College Late March Cornell University March 31, 2016 at 5 p.m. EDT Dartmouth College March 31, 2016 after 5 pm EDT Davidson College March 19, 2016 at 10 am Duke University March 24, 2016 at 7 pm Emory University March 30, 2016 at 6 pm EDT George Washington University Late March/Early April Georgetown University By April 1, 2016 Grinnell College March 18, 2016 Hamilton College March 25, 2016 in the evening Harvard University March 31, 2016 Harvey Mudd By April 1, 2016 Johns Hopkins University March 18, 2016 at 3pm EST Kenyon College March 18, 2016 at 6 pm EST Lehigh Universty Late March Macalester College March 30, 2016 Middlebury College March 19, 2016 at 8 am EST MIT March 14, 2016 at 6:28 pm EST New York University March 31, 2016 by email throughout the day Northeastern University March 15, 2016 Northwestern University Week of March 14 Notre Dame Late March/Early April Occidental College March 22, 2016 Olin College of Engineering Mid-March Pitzer College March 22, 2016 Pomona College March 18, 2016 after 5 pm PDT Princeton University March 31, 2016 at 5 p.m. EST Rice University By April 1, 2016 Stanford University March 25, 2016 at 3 pm PST Swarthmore College March 24, 2016 Tufts University By April 1, 2016 Tulane University April 1, 2016 UCLA Late March Union College March 23, 2016 in the evening University of California - Berkeley March 24, 2016 in the evening University of California - Davis March 11, 2016 University of California - Santa Barbara March 22, 2016 University of California - Santa Cruz March 15, 2016 University of Chicago March 16, 2016 in the late afternoon University of Michigan April University of Pennsylvania March 31, 2016 at 5 p.m. EDT University of Southern California Mailed March 23, 2016 Available online March 26, 2016 University of Virginia March 25, 2016 Vanderbilt University March 23, 2016 at 5:30 pm CDT Wake Forest University By April 1, 2016 Washington Lee March 25, 2016 at 8 pm EDT Washington University in St. Louis March 10, 2016 Wellesley College March 23, 2016 in the evening Wesleyan University March 25, 2016 Wheaton College (MA) By March 31, 2016 William Mary By April 1, 2016 Williams College March 23, 2016 in the evening Worcester Polytechnic Institute April 1, 2016 Yale University March 31, 2016 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!