When will you find out if the school you applied to early will accept you? Since it’s early December, the dates for Early Action and Early Decision notifications are coming up soon. This is the first admissions cycle since the important decision by the United States Supreme Court that stopped affirmative action.
But you don’t need to keep checking your email all the time. We’ll inform you when the school you applied to early will tell you their decision on your portal. Just keep in mind that these dates might change as the deadlines get closer.
2023-2024 Early Action and Early Decision Notification Dates
Here’s when top US colleges plan to send out Regular Decision notifications to Class of 2028 applicants:
| College/University | Early Action/Early Decision Notification Date |
| American University | ED I: By December 31st ED II: By February 15th |
| Amherst College | ED: December 8th |
| Babson College | ED I: December 13th EA: December 18th ED II: By Mid-February |
| Barnard College | ED: December 13th at 6:30 PM ET |
| Bates College | ED I: By December 20th ED II: By February 15th |
| Boston College | ED I: December 5thED II: By February 15th |
| Boston University | ED I: Mid-DecemberED II: Mid-February |
| Bowdoin College | ED I: December 15th at 7 PM ETED II: Early February |
| Brown University | ED: December 15th at 6 PM ET |
| Bryn Mawr College | ED I: Late December ED II: Mid-February |
| Bucknell University | ED I: Mid-DecemberED II: Mid-February |
| California Institute of Technology | EA: December 9th |
| Carleton College | ED I: By December 15thED II: By February 15th |
| Carnegie Mellon University | ED I: By December 15thED II: By February 1st |
| Case Western Reserve University | ED I: December 2ndEA: December 19thED II: February 10th |
| Claremont McKenna College | ED I: By December 15thED II: By February 15th |
| Colby College | ED I: December 8thED II: On or Before February 15th |
| Colgate University | ED I: Mid-DecemberED II: Mid-February |
| College of William & Mary | ED I: Early DecemberED II: Early February |
| Colorado College | ED I: Mid-DecemberEA: Late DecemberED II: Mid-February |
| Columbia University | ED: December 14th After 7 PM ET |
| Connecticut College | ED I: December 8thED II: Mid-February |
| Cornell University | ED: December 14th at 7 PM ET |
| Dartmouth College | ED: Mid-December |
| Davidson College | ED I: By December 16th ED II: By January 31st |
| Duke University | ED: December 14th at 7 PM ET |
| Emerson College | ED I: Mid-December EA: Mid-January ED II: Early February |
| Emory University | ED I: December 13th After 6 PM ETED II: By February 15th |
| Fordham University | ED I: December 20th EA: December 20th ED II: February 15th |
| George Washington University | ED I: By Late DecemberED II: By Late February |
| Georgetown University | EA: By December 15th |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | EA I: TBD (December 8th for Georgia residents) EA II: TBD |
| Grinnell College | ED I: December 8th ED II: Early February |
| Hamilton College | ED I: By December 15thED II: By February 15th |
| Harvard University | EA: Mid-December |
| Harvey Mudd College | ED I: December 12th at 6 PM PT ED II: February 15th |
| Haverford College | ED I: December 8th at 7 PM ET ED II: Early February |
| Indiana University | EA: By January 15th |
| Johns Hopkins University | ED I: December 15th ED II: February 16th |
| Lafayette College | ED I: December 15th ED II: February 15th |
| Lehigh University | ED I: December 8th ED II: Mid-February |
| Loyola Marymount University | ED I: Mid-December EA: Mid-December ED II: Mid-February |
| Middlebury College | ED I: December 8th ED II: Mid-February |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | EA: December 16th at 12:16 PM ET |
| New York University | ED I: December 15th ED II: February 15th |
| Northeastern University | ED I: By January 1st EA: By February 15thED II: By March 1st |
| Northwestern University | ED: December 15th |
| Oberlin College | ED I: By December 15th ED II: By February 1st |
| Occidental College | ED I: December 15th ED II: February 20th |
| Pepperdine University | EA: January 10th |
| Pomona College | ED I: December 15th After 5 PM PT ED II: By February 15th |
| Princeton University | EA: December 14th at 7 PM ET |
| Purdue University | EA: January 15th |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ED I: December 9th ED II: January 13th EA: January 27th |
| Rice University | ED: December 14th After 5 PM CT |
| Sarah Lawrence College | ED I: Late December EA: Late December ED II: Early February |
| Smith College | ED I: December 15th ED II: Late January |
| Stanford University | EA: December 15th at 4 PM ET |
| Swarthmore College | ED I: December 12th at 7 PM ET ED II: Mid-February |
| Syracuse University | ED I: Late December, Rolling Through January ED II: Late January, Rolling Through February |
| Tufts University | ED I: December 14th at 7 PM ET ED II: By Mid-February |
| Tulane University | ED I: December 5th at 4 PM ET EA: By January 10th ED II: By February 15th |
| University of Chicago | ED I: December 18th in Late Afternoon EA: December 18th in Late Afternoon ED II: Mid-February |
| University of Colorado – Boulder | EA: By February 1st |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | EA: January 26th |
| University of Maryland | EA: By February 1st |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | EA: January 24th |
| University of Miami | ED I: By Mid-December EA: By the End of January ED II: By Late February |
| University of Michigan | EA: By Late January |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | EA: January 31st |
| University of Notre Dame | EA: Mid-December |
| University of Pennsylvania | ED: December 14th at 7 PM ET |
| University of Richmond | ED I: Around December 15th EA: Around January 25th ED II: Around February 15th |
| University of Rochester | ED I: Mid-December ED II: Early February |
| University of Southern California | EA: January 23rd |
| University of Texas at Austin | Priority: February 1st |
| University of Virginia | ED I: December 15th at 5 PM ET EA: By February 15th |
| University of Wisconsin | EA: On or Before January 31st |
| Vanderbilt University | ED I: Mid-December ED II: Mid-February |
| Villanova University | ED I: By December 15th EA: By January 20th ED II: By February 15th |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute | EA: TBD |
| Wake Forest University | ED I: Rolling EA: By January 15th ED II: Around February 15th |
| Washington & Lee University | ED I: December 13th at 8 PM ET ED II: February 1st |
| Washington University in St. Louis | ED I: By December 15th ED II: By February 16th |
| Wellesley College | ED I: December 8th ED II: Mid-February |
| Wesleyan University | ED I: December 9th ED II: Mid-February |
| Williams College | ED: December 8th |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | ED I: Mid-December EA I: Late January ED II: Mid-February EA II: Late February |
| Yale University | EA: December 14th at 5 PM ET |
