Class of 2021 Early Notifications

We’ve got the Early Decision / Early Action notification dates for selective and highly selective colleges across America.
We have so many folks writing in over the last few days asking us when just about every highly selective college will be notifying applicants to the Class of 2021 of their decisions from the Early Decision / Early Action round. It’s exhausting. While we put out information every day about highly selective college admissions, we are a business. Not an information service. So for those folks writing in demanding to know when a certain school will notify applicants, don’t be too surprised when you don’t get a reply. After all, we need to devote our time and attention to our clients. But, as the leading source of advice on highly selective college admissions, we figured we’d post one final update on when we anticipate various selective and highly selective colleges to notify Early Decision / Early Action applicants of their decisions. So here goes. And if our readers know of a more recent update (since some schools update this information), do post a Comment below and we’ll verify accordingly.
Amherst College | Already notified |
Barnard College | December 13th |
Bates College | December 20th |
Boston College | Towards the end of this week |
Bowdoin College | Already notified |
Brown University | December 14th at 5 PM ET |
California Institute of Technology | Already notified |
Carnegie Mellon University | Already notified |
Claremont McKenna College | December 15th |
Colby College | December 15th |
Columbia University | Tomorrow after 6 PM ET |
Cornell University | Already notified |
Dartmouth College | December 14th |
Duke University | December 14th at 7 PM ET |
Emory University | December 15th |
Georgetown University | December 15th |
Harvard University | December 13th |
Haverford College | December 15th |
Johns Hopkins University | By December 16th |
Middlebury College | Already notified |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | December 15th at 6:28 PM ET (yes, they’re always this specific!) |
New York University | December 15th at 5 PM ET |
Northwestern University | December 15th |
Princeton University | December 15th after 3 PM ET |
Rice University | Mid-December |
Stanford Univeresity | Already notified |
Swarthmore College | Already notified |
Tufts University | Mid-December |
University of Chicago | Mid-December |
University of Michigan | By December 24th |
University of North Carolina | By January 31st |
University of Virginia | January 31st |
Vanderbilt University | December 15th |
Vassar College | Tomorrow at 5 PM ET |
Washington University in St. Louis | Already notified |
Wellesley College | Already notified |
Wesleyan University | Already notified |
Williams College | Already notified |
Yale University | December 15th |
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2 Comments
Do you have a list of dates that these schools will relate their decisions for RD?
What about Harvey Mudd? It is quite selective, especially because unlike MIT or Caltech, where students apply “just because”, the students who apply to Harvey Mudd know how good the school is. In my area, I talked to many Guidance Counselors, and they did not even know that this school existed – I was not surprised. GCs were asking the students to apply to “Known” Ivy Leagues.