Early Decision Notification Dates 2020-21
December 8, 2020
Early Decision Notification Dates 2020-21
If you’ve double-checked your Common App profile, proofread the final draft of your personal statement, and sent your materials to your top-choice schools, congrats! You’re done with your early action and early decision applications. Now comes the tough part - the nerve-racking period as you await the early decision notification dates 2020-2021.
Don’t sweat all through November after the minute you press “submit” on your applications. Colleges won’t be getting around to sending your decisions for another month or so. The results for ED I and EA usually arrive in mid-December and mid-February respectively. In case you’re looking for the release dates for specific schools, here are the early action and early decision notification dates at the top 50 national universities and liberal arts colleges for the Class of 2025. While we may not know the specific dates for many schools now, we will continue to update this blog with the latest information as we find out!
Early Decision Notification Dates 2020-21 for the Top 50 National Universities
| School Name | Early Action or Early Decision Notification Date |
|---|---|
| Princeton University | Did not have early round this year |
| Harvard University | December 17; 7pm ET |
| Columbia University | December 15; 7 PM ET |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | December 19; 3.14 pm ET |
| University of Chicago | December 21; afternoon Central Time |
| Yale University | December 16 |
| Stanford University | December 11; 7PM ET (4 PM PST) |
| Duke University | December 18; 7 PM ET |
| University of Pennsylvania | December 16; 7pm |
| Johns Hopkins University | December 11 |
| Northwestern University | December 18 |
| California Institute of Technology | December 15 |
| Dartmouth College | December 17 |
| Brown University | December 17; 2 PM ET |
| Vanderbilt University | December 15; 6 PM ET |
| Cornell University | December 17; 7 PM ET |
| Rice University | December 10 |
| University of Notre Dame | Mid-December |
| University of California - Los Angeles | Mid-March |
| Washington University in St. Louis | December 10 |
| Emory University | December 9; 6 PM ET |
| Georgetown University | December 15 |
| University of California - Berkeley | Mid-March |
| University of Southern California | Mid-March |
| Carnegie Mellon University | December 12; 9 am ET |
| University of Virginia | December 11 |
| Tufts University | December 15; 7 PM ET |
| University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | Late January |
| Wake Forest University | Mid-December |
| New York University | December 15 |
| University of California - Santa Barbara | Mid-March |
| University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | February 1 |
| University of California - Irvine | Mid-March |
| University of Rochester | Mid-December |
| Brandeis University | December 10 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | December 4 (EA 1 for Georgia residents) |
| University of Florida | Mid-December |
| Boston College | Mid-December |
| College of William and Mary | December 7 |
| University of California - Davis | Mid-March |
| Boston University | December 14 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Mid-December |
| Northeastern University | Mid-December |
| Tulane University | December 17 |
| Pepperdine University | Mid-December |
| University of Georgia | November 20 |
| University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign | February 2021 (EA) |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Mid-December |
| University of Texas - Austin | All released by February |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | Mid-December |
| Villanova University | December 15 |
Early Decision Notification Dates 2020-21 for the Top 50 Liberal Arts College
| School Name | EA/ED Notification Date |
|---|---|
| Williams College | December 11 |
| Amherst College | December 11; 6.21 PM ET |
| Swarthmore College | December 15; 7 PM ET |
| Wellesley College | December 12 |
| Bowdoin College | December 11; 7pm ET |
| Carleton College | December 10 |
| Middlebury College | December 12; 8 am ET |
| Pomona College | December 15 |
| Claremont McKenna College | December 15 |
| Davidson College | December 15 |
| Grinnell College | Mid-December |
| Haverford College | December 11 |
| Smith College | Mid-December |
| Vassar College | Mid-December |
| Washington and Lee University | December 1 |
| Colgate University | Mid-December |
| Hamilton College | December 15 |
| Colby College | December 11 |
| Harvey Mudd College | December 10 |
| United States Military Academy (West Point) | (No early application) |
| Wesleyan University | December 12 |
| Bates College | December 20 |
| Soka University of America | Mid-December |
| United States Naval Academy | (No early application) |
| Barnard College | December 15 |
| University of Richmond | December 15 |
| Bryn Mawr College | Mid-December |
| Colorado College | December 15 |
| Macalester College | December 20 |
| Kenyon College | Mid-December |
| Mount Holyoke | Mid-December |
| Oberlin College | December 15 |
| Scripps College | Mid-December |
| United States Air Force Academy | (No early application) |
| College of the Holy Cross | Rolling through December and January |
| Bucknell University | Mid-December |
| Franklin and Marshall College | December 15 |
| Lafayette College | December 15 |
| Occidental College | Mid-December |
| Union College | December 15 |
| Pitzer College | December 18 |
| Skidmore College | Mid-December |
| Denison University | December 15 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | Rolling basis |
| Whitman College | Mid-December |
| Centre College | January 1 (ED); Mid-January (EA) |
| Connecticut College | Mid-December |
| Trinity College | Mid-December |
| Gettysburg College | December 15 |
| Sewanee - University of the South | Mid-December (ED); Mid-February (EA) |
As you await the impending arrival of the early decision notification dates 2020-21, don’t forget to keep working hard on your regular decision applications and senior year classes. Even though you may be anxious thinking about what your early schools might say in their letters, remember that there are other options out there if things don’t work out. But if the early decision notification dates 2020-21 bring good news, you could be done with your college application process by the end of the year. We wish you the best of luck!