Class of 2023 Early Decision / Early Action Notification Dates
Since it’s now December, we figured we’d update our readers with anticipated Early Decision / Early Action notification dates. Around the close of not this week but next week, many of America’s most highly selective colleges will be releasing their Early Decision / Early Action decisions. While the Ivy League schools, as per usual, only announce they’ll be releasing notifications in mid-December (with no more specificity), some other schools offer more specifics about these notifications. So if you or your child applied in the Early round this year, check out the chart below to find information on when you’ll be learning of the decision. And if a school you applied to isn’t listed below, we’re sure we’ll be hearing from you. We didn’t include every school. Rather, we included many of the most selective ones.
School |
ED / EA Notification Date |
Amherst College |
December 15 |
Babson College |
Mid-December |
Barnard College |
Mid-December |
Bates College |
December 20 |
Boston College |
By December 20 |
Bowdoin College |
Mid-December |
Brown University |
December 13 at 6 PM ET |
California Institute of Technology |
Mid-December |
Carnegie Mellon University |
December 15 |
University of Chicago |
December 17 Late Afternoon CT |
Claremont McKenna College |
By December 15 |
Colby College |
By December 15 |
Columbia University |
December 13 at 7 PM ET |
Cornell University |
December 10 at 7 PM ET |
Dartmouth College |
December 13 at 4 PM ET |
Duke University |
December 13 at 7 PM ET |
Emory University |
By December 15 |
Georgetown University |
December 15 |
Harvard University |
December 13 at 7 PM ET |
Haverford College |
December 15 |
Johns Hopkins University |
By December 15 |
Middlebury College |
Mid-December |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mid-December |
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor |
By December 24 |
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill |
By End of January |
New York University |
December 15 |
Northwestern University |
Mid-December |
University of Pennsylvania |
December 13 at 7 PM ET |
Pomona College |
By December 15 |
Princeton University |
Mid-December |
Rice University |
Mid-December |
Smith College |
Mid-December |
Stanford University |
December 15 |
Swarthmore College |
Mid-December |
Tufts University |
Mid-December |
Tulane University |
Online December 20 at 3:30 PM CT |
Vanderbilt University |
Mid-December |
Vassar College |
Mid-December |
Villanova University |
By December 20 (ED1); January 15 (EA) |
University of Virginia |
End of January |
Washington University at St. Louis |
By December 15 |
Wellesley College |
Mid-December |
Wesleyan University |
Mid-December |
Williams College |
By December 15 |
Yale University |
December 14 (Evening) |