Admissions Decisions on April Fools’ Day? Ugh!

By Marie Lucca In Admissions, Applications, Decisions, Uncategorized

Colleges usually send their admissions decisions to applicants in mid-March, either by e-mail or US mail. However, this year it seems that many will be sending their “accepts” and “regrets” a bit later – on or about April 1. After Tulane’s and Columbia’s snafus earlier in this year’s admissions season (they accidentally sent acceptance letters to denied applicants), perhaps other admissions offices decided to take a few extra days to double-check and triple-check their systems!

2017 Notification Dates

Allegheny College – March 15

American University – on or around April 1

Amherst College – email on or around April 1

Babson College – mid-March

Bard College– on or around April 1

Barnard College – late March

Bates College –on or around April 1

Boston College – week of March 12

Bowdoin – early April

Brandeis – April 1

Brown – March 30

Bryn Mawr College – April 1

Bucknell University – March 29

Carlton College – April 1

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) –mid-March

Carleton College –January 15, 2017, notification April 1

Carnegie Mellon University – no later than April 15

Case Western Reserve University – on or around March 20

Claremont McKenna College – March 24 at 5:00 pm PST

Colby College – on or around April 1

Colgate University – late March

College of William & Mary – on or around April 1

Columbia University – March 30

Connecticut College – late March

Cornell University – March 30

Dartmouth College – March 30

Davidson College – April 1

Dickinson – late March

Drew University – March 18

Drexel University– on or around April 1

Duke University – April 1

Emerson College– April 1

Emory University – on or around April 1

Fordham University – on or around April 1

George Washington University – on or around April 1

Georgetown University – April 1

Georgia Institute of Technology – March 11

Goucher College – on or around April 1

Hamilton College – March 24

Harvard University – March 30

Harvey Mudd College – April 1

Haverford College – early April

James Madison University – early April

Johns Hopkins University – March 17, 3:00 pm EST

Kenyon College – mid-March

Lafayette College – late March

Lehigh University – late March

Macalester College – no later than March 30

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – March 14 at 6:28 pm EST (typical MIT!)

Middlebury College – March 18

Mount Holyoke College – on or around April 1

Muhlenberg – March 15

New York University – April 1

Northeastern University – on or around April 1

Northwestern University – mid-March

Oberlin College – on or around April 1

Occidental College – late March

Pitzer College – April 1

Pomona College – on or around April 1

Princeton University – March 30

Reed – mailed by April 1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – March 11

Rice University – April 1

Rhode Island School of Design – mailed 3^rd week of March

Rochester Institute of Technology – mailed by mid-March

Saint Lawrence University – mid-March

Santa Clara University – late March

Sarah Lawrence College – by early April

Skidmore College – mailed by April 1

Smith College – late March

Southern Methodist University – March 31

Stanford University – March 31 at 3:00 pm PST

Swarthmore College – on or around April 1

Syracuse – late March

Trinity College – mid-March

Tufts University – on or around April 1

Tulane University – April 1

UC Berkeley – March 30, 5:00 pm PST

University of Chicago – late March

UCLA – March 21 at 5:00 pm PST

UC – San Diego – by March 31

University of Maryland at College Park – by April 1

University of Massachusetts at Amherst – early march

University of Michigan – early April

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – by the end of March

University of Notre Dame – late March

University of Pennsylvania – March 30

University of Richmond – April 1

University of Rochester – first batch by March 3

University of Southern California – by April 1

University of Virginia – by the end of March

Union College – before April 15

Vanderbilt University – April 1

Vassar College – late March

Villanova University – late March

Wake Forest University – on or around April 1

Washington University, St. Louis – mailed April 1

Wellesley College – late March

Wesleyan University – late March

Williams College – by April 1

Worcester Polytechnic Institute – April 1

Yale University – March 30