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Regular Decision Release Dates for Class of 2030
When will Regular Decision notifications come out for the 2025-2026 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 2030!
2025-2026 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 2030:
| College / University | 2026 US News Rank (“Best National Universities”) | Regular Decision Notification Dates |
| Princeton University | #1 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | #2 | March 14, 2026 at 1:59pm ET |
| Harvard University | #3 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Stanford University | #4 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Yale University | #4 | March 26, 2026 |
| University of Chicago | #6 | March 13, 2026 |
| Duke University | #7 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Johns Hopkins University | #7 | March 18, 2026 |
| Northwestern University | #7 | March 25, 2026 |
| University of Pennsylvania | #7 | By April, 2026 |
| California Institute of Technology | #11 | March 12, 2026 |
| Cornell University | #12 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Brown University | #13 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Dartmouth College | #13 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Columbia University | #15 | By Late March, 2026 |
| University of California, Berkeley | #15 | March 26, 2026 |
| Rice University | #17 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | #17 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Vanderbilt University | #17 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | #20 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of Michigan – Ann Arbor | #20 | April 3, 2026 |
| University of Notre Dame | #20 | March 18, 2026 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | #20 | April 1, 2026 |
| Emory University | #24 | April 1, 2026 |
| Georgetown University | #24 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill | #26 | March 31, 2026 |
| University of Virginia | #26 | March 13, 2026 |
| University of Southern California | #28 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of California, San Diego | #29 | March 31, 2026 |
| University of Florida | #30 | March 13, 2026 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | #30 | February 13, 2026 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | #32 | March 6, 2026 (In-State Residents); March 27, 2026 (Out-of-State Residents) |
| New York University | #32 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of Calfiornia, Davis | #32 | Mid-March, 2026 |
| University of California, Irvine | #32 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Boston College | #36 | April 1, 2026 |
| Tufts University | #36 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #36 | March 6, 2026 |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | #36 | March 31, 2026 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | #40 | March 17, 2026 |
| The Ohio State University | #41 | March 6, 2026 |
| Boston University | #42 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Rutgers University–New Brunswick | #42 | February 28, 2026 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | #42 | April 1, 2026 |
| University of Washington | #42 | March 15, 2026 |
| Lehigh University | #46 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Northeastern University | #46 | March 11, 2026 |
| Purdue University–Main Campus | #46 | March 31, 2026 |
| University of Georgia | #46 | March 6, 2026 |
| University of Rochester | #46 | April 1, 2026 |
Top Liberal Arts Colleges
The following are the Regular Decision notification dates across the top liberal arts colleges for applicants to the Class of 2030:
| College / University | 2026 US News Rank (“Best National Universities”) | Regular Decision Notification Date |
| Williams College | #1 | April 1, 2026 |
| Amherst College | #2 | By Late March, 2026 |
| United States Naval Academy | #3 | By April 15, 2026 (Rolling) |
| Swarthmore College | #4 | April 1, 2026 |
| Bowdoin College | #5 | By Mid-March, 2026 |
| United States Air Force Academy | #5 | By April, 2026 (Rolling) |
| Claremont McKenna College | #7 | April 1, 2026 |
| Pomona College | #7 | April 1, 2026 |
| Wellesley College | #7 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Carleton College | #10 | March 19, 2026 |
| Harvey Mudd College | #10 | March 13, 2026 |
| United States Military Academy at West Point | #10 | Rolling |
| Barnard College | #13 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Davidson College | #13 | April 1, 2026 |
| Grinnell College | #13 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Hamilton College | #13 | March 24, 2026 |
| Middlebury College | #13 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Smith College | #13 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Vassar College | #13 | By Early April, 2026 |
| Wesleyan University | #13 | By Late March, 2026 |
| Washington and Lee University | #21 | April 1, 2026 |
| Colgate University | #23 | March 20, 2026 |
| University of Richmond | #23 | By Mid-March, 2026 |
| Bates College | #24 | March 14, 2026 |
| Colby College | #24 | April 1, 2026 |
| Haverford College | #24 | By Late March, 2026 |
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