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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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!