It’s the 2021-2022 Early Decision and Early Action season! Competition to Ivy League and highly selective colleges remains high. Therefore, expect many applicants with high SAT/ACT scores, high grades and seemly perfect applications and personal statements to be rejected or deferred to the regular decision pool.
Here are some early decision and early action notification dates for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:
- Barnard College: December 14
- Boston College: December 15
- Boston University: December 14
- Brown University: December 17
- Cal Tech: December 13
- Carnegie Mellon University: December 12
- Columbia University: December 15
- Cornell University: December 17
- Dartmouth University: December 16
- Duke University: December 18
- Georgetown University: December 13
- Hamilton College: December 15
- Harvard University: December 17
- Johns Hopkins University: December 11
- MIT: December 19 (EA)
- New York University: December 15 (ED I); (February 15 ED II)
- Northwestern University: December 18
- Purdue University: January 15, 2022
- Stanford University: Mid-December 12
- Swarthmore College: December 15
- Tufts University: December 15
- University of Michigan: Late January 2022
- University of Notre Dame: December 16
- University of Pennsylvania: December 16
- Yale University: December 16

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