Here's When the College Class of 2020 Will Learn Their Admissions Decisions
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 “TBD” or those with a general timeframe (mid/late March, early April, March 31, or April 1).
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Amherst College |
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Babson College |
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Barnard College |
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Bates College |
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Boston College |
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Boston University |
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Bowdoin College |
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Brandeis University |
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Brown University |
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Bucknell University |
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Caltech |
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Carleton College |
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Carnegie Mellon University |
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Claremont McKenna |
March 22, 2016 after 5 pm |
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Colby College |
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Colgate University |
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Columbia University |
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Connecticut College |
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Cornell University |
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Dartmouth College |
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Davidson College |
March 19, 2016 at 10 am |
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Duke University |
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Emory University |
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George Washington University |
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Georgetown University |
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Grinnell College |
March 18, 2016 |
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Hamilton College |
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Harvard University |
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Harvey Mudd |
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Johns Hopkins University |
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Kenyon College |
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Lehigh Universty |
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Macalester College |
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Middlebury College |
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MIT |
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New York University |
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Northeastern University |
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Northwestern University |
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Notre Dame |
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Occidental College |
March 22, 2016 |
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Olin College of Engineering |
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Pitzer College |
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Pomona College |
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Princeton University |
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Rice University |
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Stanford University |
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Swarthmore College |
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Tufts University |
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Tulane University |
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UCLA |
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Union College |
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University of California - Berkeley |
March 24, 2016 in the evening |
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University of California - Davis |
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University of California - Santa Barbara |
March 22, 2016 |
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University of California - Santa Cruz |
March 15, 2016 |
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University of Chicago |
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University of Michigan |
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University of Pennsylvania |
March 31, 2016 at 5 p.m. EDT |
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University of Southern California |
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University of Virginia |
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Vanderbilt University |
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Wake Forest University |
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Washington & Lee |
March 25, 2016 at 8 pm EDT |
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Washington University in St. Louis |
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Wellesley College |
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Wesleyan University |
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Wheaton College (MA) |
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William & Mary |
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Williams College |
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
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Yale University |
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!
