Based on our research and discussions with directors/deans of admissions and admissions officers, regular decision applicants (for the 2021-2022 admissions season) will be receiving their decision notifications in March and early April and it will be another highly competitive year!
Here are regular decision notification dates (and approximate times) for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:
- Barnard College: Late March 2022
- Boston College: Late March 2022
- Boston University: April 2022
- Brown University: Late March 2022
- Bucknell University: April 1, 2022
- California Institute of Technology: Mid-March 2022
- Carnegie Mellon University: April 1, 2022
- Colgate University: Mid-March 2022
- Columbia University: Late March 2022
- Cornell University: Late March 2022
- Dartmouth College: Late March 2022
- Duke University: Late March 2022
- Georgetown University: April 1, 2022
- Georgia Institute of Technology: Late March 2022
- Hamilton College: Late March 2022
- Harvard University: Late March 2022
- Johns Hopkins University: Late March 2022
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Mid-March 2022
- New York University: Late March 2022
- Northwestern University: Late March 2022
- Princeton University: Late March 2022
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: March 12, 2022
- Stanford University: Early April 2022
- Swarthmore College: Late March 2022
- Tufts University: April 1, 2022
- University of Chicago: Mid-March 2022
- University of Michigan: Early April 2022
- University of Notre Dame: Late March 2022
- University of Pennsylvania: Late March 2022
- University of Virginia: April 1, 2022
- Vanderbilt University: April 1, 2022
- Vassar College: April 5, 2022
- Villanova University: April 1, 2022
- Wesleyan University: Late March 2022
- Yale University: Late March 2022
WHAT CAN YOU DO? For seniors, if you are rejected, you may want to begin to consider transferring (College Transfer Admissions Advisors). For current juniors, you may need to consider hiring an admissions expert who specializes in Ivy League admissions (Ivy League Admissions Advisors). Year after year, our clients are accepted to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and BS/MD programs because they recognize the importance and the value that we add to their student profile. We are DIFFERENT and that makes us the BEST!

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Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges, Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors.