Regular Decision Dates 2026

Last updated on September 13th, 2025 at 03:57 pm

Regular decision dates for the session 2026 of many colleges are announced. The list of successful candidates is announced on Regular decision date. That is why students wait eagerly for the decision dates of the colleges across the US. Admissions offices receive thousands of applications each year and it takes time and efforts to finalize the list of successful applicants. This year schools are receiving record number of applications. This means that the acceptance rate of the most of the colleges will decrease.

Regular decision dates for IVY Colleges is March 30, 2026, also known as IVY Day. Most of the colleges announce their admissions decisions in March so we have provided the alphabetical list of the college decision dates here.

Will acceptance rate increase or decrease in 2025?

This year, colleges have reported a record increase in the number of applicants. New York University received over 120K admissions applications in 2025, and Boston university has already mentioned that they received the record number of applications this year. As the number of applicants increased, so the acceptance rate 2026 will remain lower for most of the colleges.

When Do Colleges Release Regular Decision?

Most colleges release their admission decisions in end March while some colleges start sending admission decision in mid March. IVY League schools send admission decisions on March 30, 202.

Most colleges release admissions decisions 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.

When is Ivy Day 2026?

Ivy Day is March 30, 2026. Every year all Ivy League schools tend to release admissions decisions on the same day. Harvard and Cornell have already confirmed March 30, 2026 as their release date. All other IVY League schools will release the admission decisions on March 30, 2026.

Regular Decision Dates 2026

Below is the list of most awaited college decision dates in 2026

College	Regular Decision Date
Agnes Scott College	15-Apr-26
Allegheny College	15-Mar-26
American University	16-Mar-26
Amherst College	17-Mar-26
Babson College	17-Mar-26
Bard College	Late March
Barnard College	March 29, 2023 at 7pm ET
Bates College	March 18 by 12pm ET
Boston College	March 23, 2023 in the evening
Boston University	25-Mar-26
Bowdoin College	March 17, 2026 at 7pm ET
Brandeis University	23-Mar-26
Brown University	March 30, 2023 (Ivy Day)
Bryn Mawr College	28-Mar-26
Bucknell University	March 15, 2026 by 9pm ET
California Institute of Technology	12-Mar-26
Carleton College	17-Mar-26
Carnegie Mellon University	March 25, 2026 after 9am ET
Case Western Reserve University	18-Mar-26
Chapman University	15-Mar-26
Claremont McKenna College	March 24, 2026 at 5pm PT
Colby College	17-Mar-26
Colgate University	Late March 2024
College of Charleston	1-Mar-26
College of William & Mary	March 24, 2026 at 5pm ET
Colorado College	14-Mar-26
Columbia University	March 30, 2026 after 7pm ET (Ivy Day)
Connecticut College	Late March
Cornell University	March 30, 2026 after 7pm ET (Ivy Day)
Dartmouth College	March 30, 2026 at 7pm ET
Davidson College	25-Mar-26
Denison University	1-Apr-26
Dickinson College	Late March 2026
Drexel University	16-Mar-26
Duke University	March 31, 2026 at 6pm ET
Emerson College	15-Mar-26
Emory University	March 29, 2026 after 6pm ET
Fordham University	1-Apr-26
Fordham University	15-Mar-26
Franklin & Marshall	15-Mar-26
Franklin and Marshall College	1-Apr-26
George Washington University	March 27, 2026 in the evening
Georgetown University	30-Mar-26
Georgia Tech	Early March 2026
Grinnell College	10-Mar-26
Hamilton College	March 23, 2026 at 8pm ET
Hampton University	Rolling Admissions
Harvard University	March 30, 2026 after 7pm ET (Ivy Day)
Harvey Mudd College	March 16, 2026 at 6pm PT
Haverford College	17-Mar-26
Holy Cross	18-Mar-26
Howard University	Early April 2024
James Madison University	Mid-Late March
Johns Hopkins University	17-Mar-26
Kenyon College	22-Mar-26
Lafayette College	Late March 2026
Lafayette College	March 23, 2026 at 4pm ET
Lehigh University	Late March 2026
Lehigh University	24-Mar-26
Macalester College	13-Mar-26
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT	March 14, 2026 at 6:28pm ET
Middlebury College	Late March 2026
Middlebury College	17-Mar-26
Morehouse College	Mid-March 2026
Mount Holyoke College	23-Mar-26
New York University	March 28, 2026 around 4pm ET
North Carolina State	Late March 2026
Northeastern University	Final wave sent March 22, 2026
Northwestern University	24-Mar-26
Oberlin College	21-Mar-26
Occidental College	15-Mar-26
Pepperdine University	17-Mar-26
Pitzer College	17-Mar-26
Pomona College	1-Apr-26
Princeton University	March 30, 2026 at 7pm ET (Ivy Day)
Providence College	15-Mar-26
Reed College	1-Apr-26
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	By March 11, 2026
Rhode Island School of Design	17-Mar-26
Rice University	March 27, 2026 at 5pm CT
Rochester Institute of Technology	Mid-March
Santa Clara University	24-Mar-26
Sarah Lawrence College	Late March 2026
Scripps College	1-Apr-26
Skidmore College	17-Mar-26
Smith College	March 24, 2026 between 3-5pm ET
Southern Methodist University	17-Mar-26
Spelman College	1-Apr-26
Stanford University	March 31, 2026 at 4 pm PT
Swarthmore College	March 17, 2026 at 7pm ET
Syracuse University	Late March
Texas Christian University	10-Mar-26
Trinity College	Late March
Tufts University	March 21, 2026 at 7pm ET
Tulane University	1-Apr-26
University of California-Berkeley	30-Mar-26
University of California-Davis	10-Mar-26
University of California-Los Angeles	17-Mar-26
University of California-San Diego	17-Mar-26
University of California-Santa Barbara	21-Mar-26
University of Chicago	March 10, 2026 in the late afternoon
University of Colorado at Boulder	1-Apr-26
University of Delaware	Rolling Admissions
University of Georgia	17-Mar-26
University of Kentucky	Mid-March 2026
University of Maryland	1-Apr-26
University of Maryland-College Park	By April 1
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	21-Mar-26
University of Miami	17-Mar-26
University of Michigan	Early April
University of Minnesota	Late March 2026
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	24-Mar-26
University of Notre Dame	March 16, 2026 at 6:42pm ET
University of Pennsylvania	March 30, 2026 (Ivy Day)
University of Richmond	17-Mar-26
University of Rochester	Late March 20626
University of San Diego	1-Apr-26
University of San Francisco	Mid-March 2026
University of Southern California	24-Mar-26
University of Texas	1-Mar-26
University of the South (Sewanee)	Early March
University of Vermont	14-Mar-26
University of Virginia	March 17, 2026 after 5pm ET
University of Wisconsin	Late March 2026
Vanderbilt University	28-Mar-26
Vassar College	28-Mar-26
Villanova University	March 17, 2026 by early evening
Virginia Tech	Early March 2026
Wake Forest University	17-Mar-26
Washington and Lee University	March 24, 2026 at 8pm ET
Washington University in St. Louis	March 23, 2026 in late afternoon
Wellesley College	18-Mar-26
Wesleyan University	25-Mar-26
Wheaton College	Late March 2026
Whitman College	1-Apr-26
Williams College	March 17, 2026 in the evening
Worcester Polytechnic University	March 21, 2026 at 5pm ET
Yale University	March 30, 2026 (Ivy Day)