Wondering when you will learn of your admissions decision from an Ivy League school or from another elite university? Most elite universities release their decisions in mid-December. Sometimes schools are super specific about when they’ll be notifying applicants of their decisions, while other times they keep it vague. “Mid-December” is about as vague as one can get. Among the Ivy League institutions, Yale University has stated that decisions will be released in the evening (Eastern Time) on December 15th but the other seven Ivies have only stated decisions will roll out on December 15th. But as the date gets closer, we expect the schools will release more in the way of specifics. So do stay tuned! Without further ado, below are the Class of 2026 Early Action and Early Decision notification dates for many of America’s elite universities:

College / University	Early Decision / Early Action Notification Date
Amherst College	Early to Mid December
Barnard College	Mid December
Bates College	December 20th
Boston College	December 15th
Bowdoin College	Mid December
Brandeis University	December 15th
Brown University	Mid December
California Institute of Technology	Mid December
Carnegie Mellon University	December 15th
Claremont McKenna College	December 15th
Colby College	December 15th
Columbia University	Mid December
Cornell University	Mid December
Dartmouth College	Mid December
Duke University	Mid December
Emory University	December 15th
Georgetown University	December 15th
Harvard University	Mid December
Johns Hopkins University	December 10th
Middlebury College	December 15th
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mid December
New York University	December 15th
Northwestern University	Mid December
Pomona College	December 15th
Princeton University	Mid December
Rice University	Mid December
Smith College	Mid December
Stanford University	December 15th
Swarthmore College	Mid December
Tufts University	Mid December
Tulane University	November 22nd (ED1) / January 15th (EA)
University of Michigan	Late January
University of Notre Dame	Mid December
University of Pennsylvania	Mid December
University of Virginia	Mid December (ED1) / Mid February (EA)
Vanderbilt University	Mid December
Vassar College	Mid December
Villanova University	December 15th (ED1) / January 15th (EA)
Washington University in St. Louis	December 17th
Wellesley College	Mid December
Wesleyan University	Mid December
Williams College	December 15th
Yale University	December 15th (Evening Eastern Time)

While you’re here, see how these dates compare to the Early Action and Early Decision notification dates for the Class of 2025.