Class of 2026
Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates
Updated on 12//6/2021
College | Notification Date (Current Year)* | Notification Date (Last Year)* |
|---|---|---|
American University | Official: ED December 20 and December 21 | ED December 17 |
Amherst College | early to mid December | ED December 11 |
Babson College | ED mid-December, EA January 1 | ED December 14, EA December 17 |
Bard College | Official: ED November 22, EA by December 31 | |
Barnard College | by mid-December | ED December 14 |
Bates College | Official: by December 20 | ED December 12 |
Binghamton University | Official: beginning late November in waves until January 15 | EA mid November in waves until by January 15 |
Boston College | Official: December 2 evening | ED December 3 |
Boston University | by December 15 | ED December 14 |
Bowdoin College | mid-December | ED December 11 |
Brandeis University | December 15 | ED December 10 |
Brown University | mid-December | ED December 17 |
Bryn Mawr College | mid-December | ED December 20 |
Bucknell University | mid-December | ED December 16 |
California Institute of Technology | mid-December | EA December 12 |
Carleton College | Official: December 9 or December 10 | ED December 10 |
Carnegie Mellon | Official: December 12 | ED December 12 |
Case Western Reserve University | Official: ED December 4, EA December 21 | ED December 5, EA December 22 |
Chapman University | Official: mid- December | ED/EA December 16 |
Claremont McKenna College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Clark University | Official: ED mid-December, EA January 12 | ED December 20, EA January 20 |
Clemson | February 15 | EA February 15 |
Colby College | December 15 | ED December 11 |
Colgate University | mId-December | ED December 10 |
College of Charleston | Official:ED by December 1/EA by December 15 | ED November 24 |
College of William and Mary | by early December | ED December 9 |
College of the Holy Cross | December 15 | Rolling through December and January |
Colorado College | ED mid- December, EA late December | ED December 11 EA December 16 |
Colorado School of Mines | by December 21 | EA December 18 |
Columbia University | Official: December 14 | ED December 15 |
Connecticut College | mid-December | ED December 11 |
Cornell University | mid-December | ED December 17 |
Dartmouth College | mid-December | ED December 16 |
Davidson College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Dickinson College | mid-December | ED December 10 |
Drexel University | mid-December | ED/EA December 13 |
Duke University | mid-December | ED December 18 |
Eckerd College | December 15 | EA December 10 |
Elon University | Official: ED December 1/ EA December 20 | December 20 |
Emerson College | mid-December | ED/EA December 15 |
Emory University | December 15 | ED December 9 |
Endicott College | ED December 15/EA December 23 | |
Fairfield University | ED1 by December 15/EA by January 1 | December 20 |
Fordham University | Official: December 20 | ED/EA December 18 |
Franklin and Marshall | December 15 | ED December 15 |
George Washington University | late December | ED December 17 |
Georgetown University | December 15 | EAR December 13 |
Georgia Institue of Technology | Official: EA1 December 11/EA2 mid-January | EA1 December 4, EA2 January 23 |
Gettysburg College | December 15 | December 15 |
Grinnell College | Official: December 3 | ED December 4 |
Hamilton College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Harvard University | mid- December | EAR December 17 |
Harvey Mudd College | December 15 | ED December 11 |
Haverford College | December 15 | ED December 11 |
High Point University | ED November 22/EA December 20 | ED November 23/EA December 15 |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges | December 15 | December 15 |
Hofstra University | December 15 | EA December 15 |
Howard University | Official: EA January 28 | ED/EA December 18 |
Indiana University Bloomington | beginning October 26 through January 15 | EA beginning early November in waves until January 15 |
Iona College | late December | December 16 |
Ithaca College | ED December 15/EA February 1 | |
Johns Hopkins University | December 11 | ED December 11 |
Kenyon College | mid-December | ED December 15 |
Lafayette College | December 15 | ED December 14 |
Lehigh University | mid- December | ED December 10 |
Loyola University Maryland | January 15 | |
MIT | mid-December | EA December 19 |
Macalester College | Official: ED December 5, EA December 19 | ED December 6, EA December 20 |
Miami University | Official: ED December 1/EA December15 | ED December 15, EA January 15 |
Middlebury College | mid- December | ED December 12 |
Mount Holyoke College | Late December | ED December 16 |
Muhlenberg College | December 15 | |
New York University | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Northeastern University | Official: ED week of December 6/EA by February 1 | ED December 9, EA January 27 |
Northwestern University | Official: December 17 | ED December 18 |
Oberlin College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Occidental College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Ohio State University | Official: December 10 and January 21 | EA December 11 and January 29 |
Penn State University | beginning early November on a rolling basis until December 24 | EA beginning December 1 in waves until December 24 |
Pitzer College | Official: by December 18 | ED December 18 |
Pomona College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Princeton University | mid-December | No ED/EA option in 2020 |
Providence College | Official: ED December 1/EA late December | ED November 30, EA December 18 |
Purchase College | beginning mid-November rolling until December 15 | |
Purdue University | January 15 | EA December 15 |
Quinnipiac University | ED Mid-December/EA Mid-January | |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Official: ED December 11/EA January 29 | ED December 12, EA January 30 |
Rice University | mid-December | ED December 10 |
Rochester Institute of Technology | mid-December | ED December 15 |
Roger Williams University | December 15 | |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | December 15 | |
Rutgers | January 31 | February 15 |
SUNY Albany | Official: mid to end of December | |
SUNY Buffalo | Official: beginning late December on a rolling basis until late January | |
SUNY College at Oneonta | beginning early November on a rolling basis until January 6. | |
SUNY New Paltz | Official: January 1 | |
Sacred Heart University | ED by December 15/EA late January-early February of | |
Salve Regina University | ED December 15/EA January 1 | |
Sarah Lawrence College | Official: ED/EA week of December 13 | ED December 8, EA December 31 |
Scripps College | mId-December | ED December 14 |
Skidmore College | mid-December | ED December 9 |
Smith College | mid-December | ED December 15 |
Southern Methodist University | Official: ED/EA mid-December | ED/EA December 17 |
St. Lawrence University | Official: beginning late November on a rolling basis until early February | |
Stanford University | mid-December | EAR December 11 |
Stevens Institute of Technology | December 15 | |
Suffolk University | mid-December | EA December 17 |
Swarthmore College | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Syracuse University | by January 1 | ED December 18 |
Temple University | by January 10 | |
The New School | EA mid-December | |
Trinity College | mid-December | ED December 10 |
Tufts University | Official: December 14 | ED December 15 |
Tulane University | Official: ED November 22/EA January 15 | ED November 18, EA December 17 |
Union College | Official: ED December 7/EA December 18 | ED December 8, EA December 16 |
University of Chicago | mid-December | ED/EA December 21 |
University of Colorado Boulder | February 1 | EA January 23 |
University of Delaware | beginning early November in waves by January 31 | EA December 11 |
University of Denver | ED early December/EA late December | ED December 7, EA December 13 |
University of Florida | February 25 | EA February 26 |
University of Georgia | Official: November 19 | EA November 20 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | mid-February | EA February 18 |
University of Maine | beginning early November rolling until mid-November | EA November 15 |
University of Maryland College Park | by February 1 | EA January 29 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst | beginning in mid-December until mid-January | EA beginning December 6 in waves until early January |
University of Miami | ED late December, EA lateJanuary | ED December 11, EA January 18 |
University of Michigan Ann Arbor | late January | EA January 29 |
University of Minnesota Twin Cities | by January 31 | |
University of New Hampshire | by January 31 | |
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | late January | EA January 27 |
University of Notre Dame | mid-December | EAR December 16 |
University of Pennsylvania | mid-December | ED December 16 |
University of Rhode Island | By January 31 | EA beginning December 17 in waves until early January |
University of Richmond | Official: ED December 15/EA January 25 | ED December 11, EA January 25 |
University of Rochester | Mid-December | ED December 11 |
University of Scranton | beginning December 15 | |
University of South Carolina | mid-December | EA December 15 |
University of Tampa | EA beginning mid-October | EA beginning mid November in waves until mid December |
University of Vermont | by late December | EA December 17 |
University of Virginia | ED December 15, EA February 15 | ED December 11, EA February 15 |
University of Wisconsin | By January 31 | EA beginning December 15 in waves until late January |
Vanderbilt University | December 15 | ED December 15 |
Vassar College | mid-December | ED December 8 |
Villanova University | ED December 15, EA January 29 | ED December 15, EA January 29 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute | December 15 | ED December 15, EA February 15 |
Wake Forest University | ED beginning early September in waves until January | |
Washington University St. Louis | Official: December 17 | ED December 14 |
Washington and Lee University | late December | ED December 13 |
Wellesley College | mid-December | ED December 12 |
Wesleyan University | mid-December | ED December 12 |
William and Mary | early December | ED December 7 |
Williams College | mid-December | ED December 11 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | ED December 15/EA January 15 | ED December 15, EA January 15 |
Yale University | Official: December 15 | EAR December 16 |
*Official dates are provided by the college admissions office.
*Unless noted as “official”, Current Year dates are based on crowdsourced info from students, college websites, and admissions offices.
*Last Year dates are based on a combination of crowdsourced and official college-published information.