09 February 2021
Class of 2025 Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates
Update #61 (2/9)
Here's our updated list of early decision and early action notification dates for the Class of 2025. As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here where available, as well as last year's notification dates for reference. Bookmark this page, as we'll be updating it frequently over the next 30 days.
Good luck, seniors!
Class of 2025 Early Notification Dates
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| Institution | Notification Date (Current Year) | Comments | Notification Date (Last Year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| American University | 12/17 4pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/17 4:30pm ET |
| Amherst College | 12/11 6:21pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/11 6:21pm ET |
| Babson College | week of 12/14 | Official (updated) | 12/17 late afternoon ET (ED1), 12/18 late afternoon ET(EA) |
| Barnard College | 12/14 | Official (updated) | 12/13 evening ET |
| Bates College | 12/12 12pm ET (ED1), 2/6 by 12pm ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/14 by 12pm ET |
| Boston College | 12/3 evening ET (ED1), 2/4 evening ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/5 after 5:30pm ET |
| Boston University | 12/14 (ED1), 2/8 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/11 |
| Bowdoin College | 12/11 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 7pm ET |
| Brandeis University | 12/10 evening ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 |
| Brown University | 12/17 2pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 6pm ET |
| Bryn Mawr College | 12/17 (ED1), 2/1 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/18 |
| Bucknell University | 12/16 9pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/18 |
| California Institute of Technology | 12/12 | Official (updated) | mid-December |
| Carleton College | 12/10 8pm CT | Official (updated) | 12/15 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 12/12 | Official (updated) | 12/14 6am ET |
| Case Western Reserve University | 12/5 (ED1), 12/22 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/19 8:30pm ET |
| Chapman University | 12/16 (ED1), 12/16 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/13 after 5pm PT (ED/EA) |
| Claremont McKenna College | 12/15 | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Colby College | 12/11 | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Colgate University | 12/10 7:13pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| College of William and Mary | 12/7 after 5pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/6 evening ET |
| Colorado College | 12/11 (ED1), 12/16 (EA) | Official (updated) | 12/12 4pm MT (ED1), 12/17 4pm MT (EA), 2/11 4pm MT (ED2) |
| Columbia University | 12/15 after 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 after 7pm ET |
| Connecticut College | 12/11 evening ET (ED1), 2/12 evening ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Cornell University | 12/17 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 7pm ET |
| Dartmouth College | 12/16 | Official (updated) | 12/12 after 4pm ET |
| Davidson College | 12/15 9pm ET (ED1), 1/30 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/14 10am ET |
| Dickinson College | 12/10 3pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 |
| Duke University | 12/18 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 7pm ET |
| Emerson College | 12/15 (ED1), 12/15 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Emory University (Emory) | 12/9 6pm ET (ED1), 2/3 6pm ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/11 6pm ET |
| Emory University (Oxford) | 12/9 6pm ET (ED1), 2/3 6pm ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/11 6pm ET |
| Fordham University | 12/15 afternoon ET (ED1), 12/15 afternoon ET (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Franklin and Marshall | 12/15 | Official (updated) | 12/13 7pm ET |
| Furman University | 12/1 (ED1), 1/15 (EA1) | Official | 11/26 |
| George Mason University | 12/11 | Official (updated) | 12/12 |
| George Washington University | 12/17 | Official (updated) | late December |
| Georgetown University | 12/15 | Official (updated) | mailed 12/12 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 12/4 5pm ET (EA1), 1/23 12pm ET (EA2) | Official (updated) | 1/18 10am ET |
| Grinnell College | 12/4 | Updated | 12/6 |
| Hamilton College | 12/15 evening ET (ED1), 2/5 evening ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/12 8pm ET |
| Harvard University | 12/17 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 after 7pm ET |
| Harvey Mudd College | 12/11 6pm PT | Official (updated) | 12/13 6pm PT |
| Haverford College | 12/11 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 7pm ET |
| Johns Hopkins University | 12/11 | Official (updated) | 12/13 3pm ET |
| Kalamazoo College | 12/1 (ED1), 12/20 (EA1) | Official | by 12/19 |
| Kenyon College | 12/11 (ED1), 2/8 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Lafayette College | 12/14 | Official (updated) | mailed 12/13 |
| Lehigh University | 12/10 | Official (updated) | 12/18 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 11/25 (ED1), 1/8 (EA) | Official (updated) | 12/5 (ED), 12/18 (EA) |
| Macalester College | 12/6 (ED1), 2/1 (ED2) | Official | by 12/15 |
| Middlebury College | 12/12 after 8am ET | Official (updated) | 12/7 |
| Miami University - Oxford | 12/1 (ED1), 12/15 (EA1) | Official | 12/1 (ED1), 12/15 (EA1) |
| MIT | 12/19 3:14pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/14 12:14pm ET |
| Mount Holyoke College | 12/16 | Official (updated) | 1/1 |
| New York University | 12/15 4pm ET (ED1), 2/16 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/12 by 5pm ET |
| North Carolina State | 1/30 | Official | 1/30 |
| Northeastern University | 12/9 (ED1), 1/27 (EA1), 2/3 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/11 (ED1) |
| Northwestern University | 12/18 3pm CT | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Oberlin College | 12/12 afternoon ET | Official (updated) | 12/14 |
| Occidental College | 12/11 | Official (updated) | 12/13 5pm PT |
| Pitzer College | 12/11 | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Pomona College | 12/15 5pm PT | Official (updated) | 12/6 |
| Providence College | 12/1 (ED1), 12/18 7pm ET (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/17 evening ET |
| Purdue University | 1/15 | Official | 1/15 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 12/12 7pm ET (ED1), 1/30 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/14 |
| Rice University | 12/10 after 5pm CT | Official (updated) | 12/12 after 5pm CT |
| Saint Michaels College | 12/7 | Official (updated) | 12/9 |
| Santa Clara University | 12/15 (ED1, EA) | Official (updated) | 12/11 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 12/12 | Official (updated) | 12/14 |
| Scripps College | 12/15 | Official (updated) | mid-December |
| Sewanee: The University of the South | 12/11 evening CT (ED), 1/20 7pm CT (EA) | Official (updated) | 12/13 evening CT |
| Skidmore College | 12/16 | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Smith College | 12/16 (ED1), 1/29 (ED2) | Official (updated) | mid-December |
| Southern Methodist University | 12/18 | Official (updated) | 12/3 7pm CT |
| Stanford University | 12/11 4pm PT | Official (updated) | 12/6 4pm PT |
| Swarthmore College | 12/15 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 7pm ET |
| Texas Christian University | 12/4 (ED1), 12/11 (EA1) | Official (updated) | by 1/1 (ED, EA) |
| Trinity College | 12/10 evening ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 7pm ET |
| Tufts University | 12/15 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 7pm ET |
| Tulane University | 11/18 3:30pm CT (ED), 12/17 3:30pm CT (EA), 1/19 3:30pm CT (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/19 3:30pm CT (EA) |
| Union College | 12/1 (ED1), 12/16 7pm ET (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/15 (ED1), 12/31 (EA1) |
| University of Chicago | 12/21 afternoon CT (ED1), 2/12 (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/18 late afternoon CT |
| University of Georgia | 11/20 | Official (updated) | 11/22 |
| University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign | mid-February | Official | 12/13 4pm CT |
| University of Massachusetts - Amherst | 12/10 (first batch) | Official (updated) | begins week of 12/9 |
| University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | late January | Official | 12/19 |
| University of Notre Dame | 12/16 6:42pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 6:42pm ET |
| University of Pennsylvania | 12/16 7pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/16 7pm ET |
| University of Richmond | 12/11 (ED1), 1/25 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/6 (ED1) |
| University of Vermont | 12/17 5pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/12 |
| University of Virginia | 12/11 evening ET (ED), mid-February (EA) | Official (updated) | 12/6 evening ET (ED), 1/31 (EA) |
| Vanderbilt University | 12/15 after 5pm CT | Official (updated) | 12/13 after 5pm CT |
| Vassar College | 12/8 close of business ET | Official (updated) | 12/9 close of business ET |
| Villanova University | 12/15 after 5pm ET, 1/29 4:30pm ET (EA) | Official (updated) | 12/12 after 5pm ET (ED), 1/15 (EA) |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute | 12/11 (ED1), 2/28 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/13 5pm ET (ED), 2/22 (EA) |
| Washington and Lee University | 12/16 8pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/13 8pm ET |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 12/14 | Official (updated) | 12/12 |
| Wellesley College | 12/12 | Official (updated) | 12/7 10am ET |
| Wesleyan University | 12/12 | Official (updated) | 12/14 |
| Whitman College | mid-December | Official | mid-December |
| Willamette University | 12/11 (ED1), 12/11 (EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Williams College | 12/11 evening ET (ED1), 1/27 evening ET (ED2) | Official (updated) | 12/13 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 12/14 5pm ET (ED1)(EA1) | Official (updated) | 12/16 5pm ET |
| Yale University | 12/16 5pm ET | Official (updated) | 12/16 |
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