When will Regular Decision notifications come out for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle? Not every highly selective university releases Regular Decision admissions decisions on the same date.

Some schools release notifications a little earlier, likely hoping to benefit from the primacy effect of social psychology (a cognitive bias in which people tend to like that which they see first best). Others release notifications a little later, likely hoping to benefit from the recency effect of social psychology (a cognitive bias in which people tend to like that which they see last best).

So where do the colleges your child applied to fall in the pecking order of Regular Decision notification dates? Wonder no more, applicants to the Class of 2029!

2024-2025 Regular Decision Notification Dates

Top National Universities

The following are the Regular Decision notification dates across the top national universities for applicants to the Class of 2029:

College / University	2025 US News Rank (“Best National Universities”)	Regular Decision Notification Date
Princeton University	#1	By Late March 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	#2	March 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM ET (Pi Day)
Harvard University	#3	By Late March 2025
Stanford University	#4	By Early April 2025
Yale University	#5	April 1, 2025
California Institute of Technology	#6	By Mid-March 2025
Duke University	#6	By Late March / Early April 2025
Johns Hopkins University	#6	March 21, 2025
Northwestern University	#6	March 2025
University of Pennsylvania	#10	By April 2025
Cornell University	#11	By Late March 2025
University of Chicago	#11	By Late March 2025
Brown University	#13	By Late March 2025
Columbia University	#13	By Late March 2025
Dartmouth College	#15	By Late March / Early April 2025
UCLA	#15	March 1-31, 2025
UC Berkeley	#17	By Late March 2025
Notre Dame	#18	By Late March 2025
Rice University	#18	By April 2025
Vanderbilt University	#18	By Late March 2025
Carnegie Mellon University	#21	April 1, 2025
University of Michigan	#21	By Early April 2025
Washington University in St. Louis	#21	April 1, 2025
Emory University	#24	April 1, 2025
Georgetown University	#24	By Early April 2025
University of Virginia	#24	April 1, 2025
UNC Chapel Hill	#27	March 31, 2025
University of Southern California	#27	April 1, 2025
UC San Diego	#29	By Mid-March 2025
New York University	#30	April 1, 2025
University of Florida	#30	March 14, 2025
UT Austin	#30	February 15, 2025
Georgia Tech	#33	By Early March (Georgia Residents); By Late March (Non-Georgia Residents)
UC Davis	#33	By Mid-March 2025
UC Irvine	#33	March 1-31, 2025
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign	#33	February 28, 2025
Boston College	#37	April 1, 2025
Tufts University	#37	April 1, 2025
UC Santa Barbara	#39	By Mid-March 2025
University of Wisconsin – Madison	#39	March 31, 2025
Boston University	#41	By Late March / Early April
Ohio State University	#41	March 7, 2025
Rutgers University – New Brunswick	#41	March 31, 2025
University of Maryland – College Park	#44	April 1, 2025
University of Rochester	#44	April 1, 2025
Lehigh University	#46	By Late March 2025
Purdue University	#46	March 31, 2025
University of Georgia	#46	By Mid-March 2025
University of Washington	#46	March 1-15, 2025 (Single Deadline)
Wake Forest University	#46	April 1, 2025

Top Liberal Arts Colleges

The following are the Regular Decision notification dates across the top liberal arts colleges for applicants to the Class of 2029:

Liberal Arts College	2025 US News Rank (“Best Liberal Arts Colleges”)	Regular Decision Notification Date
Williams College	#1	April 1, 2025
Amherst College	#2	March 20, 2025
Swarthmore College	#3	April 1, 2025
United States Naval Academy	#4	By April 15, 2025 (Rolling)
Bowdoin College	#5	By Mid-March 2025
Pomona College	#5	April 1, 2025
Wellesley College	#7	By Late March 2025
United States Air Force Academy	#8	By April 2025 (Rolling)
Carleton College	#8	April 1, 2025
Claremont McKenna College	#8	April 1, 2025
United States Military Academy	#8	Rolling
Harvey Mudd College	#12	April 1, 2025
Vassar College	#12	N/A
Barnard College	#14	By Late March 2025
Davidson College	#14	April 1, 2025
Hamilton College	#14	By Late March 2025
Smith College	#14	By Late March 2025
Wesleyan University	#14	By Late March 2025
Grinnell College	#19	By Late March / Early April 2025
Middlebury College	#19	By Late March 2025
Washington and Lee University	#19	April 1, 2025
Colgate University	#22	By Late March 2025
University of Richmond	#22	March 14, 2025
Haverford College	#24	By Late March 2025
Colby College	#25	April 1, 2025

Ivy Coach’s Assistance with Waitlist Decisions

If your child receives neither an offer of admission nor a denial, it means they’ve been waitlisted. In such a circumstance, if you’re interested in optimizing your child’s case for admission out of limbo, fill out Ivy Coach’s complimentary consultation form, and we’ll be in touch to delineate our go-forward services.