The 2026–27 cycle

When college decisions come out

Decision season starts in December. Early Decision and Early Action letters post through the middle of December, Regular Decision runs from February into early April, and Ivy Day closes the season at the end of March. This site tracks every round of every college here — the date the college announced, or, where nothing is announced yet, an expected date with the evidence it rests on: that college's release history or its published timeline.

Dates only: no odds, no chances, no admissions statistics. Just when the letters come out, and where each date came from.

UCLA University of California, Los Angeles

  1. Expected

    First-year decisions

    Mar 20 ’26 Mar 21 ’25

All UCLA decision dates and release history →

Stanford Stanford University

  1. Expected

    Restrictive Early Action

    Dec 12 ’25 Dec 16 ’22
  2. Expected

    Regular Decision

    Mar 27 ’26

All Stanford decision dates and release history →

USC University of Southern California

  1. Expected

    Early Decision

  2. Expected

    Early Action

  3. Expected

    Regular Decision

    Mar 25 ’26

All USC decision dates and release history →

NYU New York University

  1. Expected

    Early Decision I

    Dec 11 ’25
  2. Expected

    Early Decision II

  3. Expected

    Regular Decision

    Mar 25 ’26

All NYU decision dates and release history →


Where to go next


Every college on the site

200 colleges, alphabetical. Each page carries that college's rounds for the 2026–27 cycle and the dates it actually released in past cycles.