Wondering when you’ll be receiving word from the school to which you applied in the Early Action / Early Decision round this year? Wonder no more! We’ve got the dates for you. From earlier notifiers like Boston College to late notifiers like Cornell University, you don’t have to stress anymore about when you’ll be hearing from these institutions. Unless of course — like many highly selective universities — they just tell you they’ll be notifying students in mid-December. We know, we know. What does mid-December mean? Does that mean December 10th? December 16th? In our experience, most highly selective schools tend to notify earlier rather than later when all they indicate in advance is mid-December. In any case, the Early Action / Early Decision notification dates for the Class of 2025 are listed below. Stay tuned for updates because, remember, these dates change frequently. In the end, colleges release when they wish to release — irrespective of what they may have declared previously. So think of these dates as, well, estimates.

College / University	2020 Early Decision / Early Action Notification Date
Amherst College	12/31
Barnard College	Mid-December
Bates College	12/20
Boston College	12/3
Bowdoin College	Mid-December
Brown University	Mid-December
California Institute of Technology	Mid-December
Carnegie Mellon University	12/15
Colby College	By 12/15
Colgate University	Mid-December
Columbia University	12/15
Cornell University	12/17 at 7 PM ET
Dartmouth College	12/16 at 4 PM ET
Duke University	Mid-December
Emory University	12/9
Georgetown University	12/15
Georgia Institute of Technology	12/4 at 5 PM ET
Harvard University	Mid-December
Haverford College	12/15
Johns Hopkins University	12/11
Middlebury College	Mid-December
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mid-December
New York University	12/15
Northwestern University	12/18
Pomona College	12/15
Rice University	Mid-December
Smith College	Mid-December
Stanford University	12/11
Swarthmore College	12/15
Tufts University	Mid-December
Tulane University	11/18 at 3:30 PM CT for ED; Week of 12/14 for EA
University of Chicago	12/21
University of Michigan	Late January
University of Notre Dame	Mid-December
University of Pennsylvania	Mid-December
University of Virginia	12/15 for ED1; 1/25 for EA
Vanderbilt University	Mid-December
Vassar College	Mid-December
Villanova University	12/15 for ED1; 1/15 for EA
Washington University in St. Louis	12/15 for ED1; 1/15 for EA
Wellesley College	Mid-December
Wesleyan University	Mid-December
Williams College	12/15
Yale University	Mid-December

And if you’re curious how these dates compare to last year, allow us to satiate your curiosity by providing you the Early Decision / Early Action notification dates for the Class of 2024. As but one example, look when our students learned of their acceptances at Stanford last year. This year, students will just have to wait a little bit longer.