Upcoming 2025 Regular Decision Deadlines

Happy New Year! Although most seniors will have submitted the bulk of their applications by the first week of January, there are still opportunities for students to expand their college list and increase their admissions chances by applying Regular Decision (RD) to colleges that offer later deadlines.

While you won't be considered among the early pool of applicants, applying RD can offer many benefits, especially for those who have not received admissions offers from early rounds or who prioritized other applications in the fall.

There are plenty of schools in the top 50 that allow for students to submit their materials from mid-January to February 1st. See below for a list of some of our most popular colleges with upcoming RD deadlines:

College	Regular Decision Deadline
Rice University	January 4th
George Washington University	January 5th
Harvey Mudd College	January 5th
NYU	January 5th
Stanford University	January 5th
Syracuse University	January 5th
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	January 5th
University of Pennsylvania	January 5th
University of Rochester	January 5th
University of Virginia	January 5th
Washington University in St. Louis	January 5th
William & Mary	January 5th
Amherst College	January 6th
Boston University	January 6th
Georgia Tech	January 6th
MIT	January 6th
Tufts University	January 6th
University of Chicago	January 6th
Claremont McKenna College	January 10th
Georgetown University	January 10th
American University	January 10th
Case Western Reserve University	January 15th
Pepperdine University	January 15th
Purdue University	January 15th
Southern Methodist University (SMU)	January 15th
Tulane University	January 15th
University of Colorado - Boulder	January 15th
University of Florida	January 15th
University of North Carolina	January 15th
University of Southern California (USC)	January 15th
University of Wisconsin-Madison	January 15th
Villanova	January 15th
Virginia Tech	January 15th
Auburn University	February 1st
Indiana University - Bloomington	February 1st
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	February 1st

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