Now that you’ve submitted your applications, the next question is “when will I hear from schools?”. While some aspects of this year’s application process are different, the waiting is still the hardest part (to quote the late Tom Petty).

Here are admission notification dates for a number of prominent schools:

Amherst College December 15th

Barnard College Mid-December

Boston College December 15th

Boston University December 15

Brown University Mid-December

Cal Tech Mid-December

Carnegie Mellon University December 15th

Columbia University Mid-December

Cornell University December 12th,

Dartmouth College Mid-December

Duke University Mid-December

Emory University December 15th

George Mason University Mid-December

George WashingtonUniversity Late-December

Georgetown University December 15th

Georgia Tech Mid-December

Harvard University Mid-December

Johns Hopkins University December 11th

MIT Mid-December

New York University December 15th

Northwestern University Mid-December

Pomona College By December 15

Princeton University April 1st

Rice University Mid-December

Stanford University December 15th

Tufts University Mid-December

Tulane University December 15th

University of Chicago Mid-December

University of Georgia Mid-December

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mid-February

University of Miami Late December

University of Michigan Late January

University of Notre Dame Mid-December

University of Pennsylvania Mid-December 

University of Texas at Austin By February 1

University of Virginia Mid-December

Vanderbilt University December 15th

Villanova University By December 15th

Washington University in St. Louis December 15th

William & Mary Early December

Worcester Polytechnic Institute December 15th

Yale University Mid-December