January till June is crunch time for Admission Officers. Admission Offices across top universities are working hard to assess thousands of applications within regular decision application cycles.
Once students submit their applications, it is vital to keep track of each post-application phase component and notification dates for the regular admission cycle.
Here is the UniVisory list comprising admission decision timelines for top colleges. Please note that many of these timelines are general and could change as we inch towards the actual dates.
| College | Regular Application Cycle Decision Timeline |
| Harvard University | End March |
| Stanford University | By 1st April |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Mid-March |
| University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | End March |
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | End March |
| Yale University | By April |
| Columbia University | By April |
| Princeton University | By Early April |
| New York University (NYU) | By 1st April |
| University of Pennsylvania | By Early April |
| University of Chicago | By Late March |
| Cornell University | By Early April |
| Duke University | By Early April |
| John Hopkins University | By Early April |
| University of Southern California | By 1st April |
| Northwestern University | By Late March |
| Carnegie Mellon University | By 1st April |
| University of Michigan | End March |
| Brown University | By Early April |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | By 31st March |
| Boston University | By 1st April |
| Emory University | By 1st April |
| Rice University | By 1st April |
| Dartmouth College | By Early April |
| Babsons College | Mid-March |
| Oxford University | By 10th January |
| Cambridge University | By 25th January |
| Imperial University | By 31st March |
| University of Edinburgh | By End April |
| London School of Economics (LSE) | By End May |
| University of Toronto | End January till May |
| University of British Columbia (UBC) | End January till May |
| University of Waterloo | End January till May |
| McGill University | Mid Dec till End May |
| University of Alberta | End January till May |
| McMaster University | End January till May |
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | Mid May till End July |
| Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | By End June |
| Australian National University (ANU) | 5th September |
| The University of Hong Kong | By End August |