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How this site works
DecisionDates answers one question for 200 colleges: when do decisions come out? Each college page carries every round of the 2026–27 cycle, the date it comes out, and the dates that college actually released in past cycles.
Announced and expected are never blurred
Dates marked announced come from the college itself, with the announcement linked. Dates marked expected rest on the evidence named right next to the date — that college's own release history or the timeline its admissions office publishes — and the label switches to announced only when the college says so.
In practice that means two kinds of rows. Announced: "Regular Decision comes out March 26 at 7 p.m. Eastern," with a link to the college's own announcement. Not announced yet: "Expect late March — the last four cycles it has landed on the Thursday before April 1." The second kind never loses its label and never appears without its evidence sentence beside it. When the college publishes a date, the row changes to announced that day.
Every date says where it came from
Announced dates cite the college: an admissions page, an admissions blog post, or an official announcement. Past release dates cite where the release was reported — the college paper, the admissions blog archive, a dated notification list. If a date can't be attributed, it isn't on the site. Thin history beats invented history, so some colleges show two past cycles where others show five.
Every college page is stamped with the date its dates were last hand-checked, and every page is checked again as colleges announce through the fall and winter.
Dates only
No admission odds. No acceptance rates. No "chance me." No statistics about who gets in and who doesn't. If you are refreshing a portal in March, none of that helps you, and most of it just raises the temperature. This site tells you when the letter comes out and where that date came from. That's the whole job.
Your applicant portal is always the final word
Colleges post decisions to the applicant portal, not to email — the email usually just says the portal changed. Announced dates move sometimes, portals open a few minutes late, and one college's date can shift while every other date holds. When the portal and this site disagree, the portal is right. Each college page links straight to its admissions page — and, for all but a handful of colleges, its applicant portal — so you can check the source in one click.
How cycles are named
A cycle is named for the fall applications were filed. The 2026–27 cycle means applications filed in fall 2026 and decisions released from December 2026 into April 2027, for students entering that fall. So a decision that came out in March 2026 belongs to the 2025–26 cycle — that naming keeps every history table lined up.