March 27 Decisions: Every Elite School Releasing Results This Week

It's Not Just the Ivies

March 27 is best known as Ivy Day, but many other highly selective schools release Regular Decision results in the same window. Here's who else you might hear from:

Schools Releasing Around March 27

• MIT — typically mid-March (Pi Day, March 14)
• Stanford — usually late March/early April
• Duke — late March
• Johns Hopkins — late March
• Northwestern — late March
• Vanderbilt — late March
• Rice — late March
• Georgetown — early April
• Notre Dame — late March

How to Manage Multiple Decisions

If you applied to several of these schools, you could receive a half-dozen decisions in a single week. That's an emotional rollercoaster. Set up a spreadsheet now with columns for: school name, decision, financial aid offered, net cost, and your gut feeling. You'll thank yourself when it's time to compare.

After the Dust Settles

Once all decisions are in, resist the urge to commit immediately to the most prestigious name. Look at the actual cost after aid, the graduation rate for your intended major, and the median earnings of graduates. These numbers tell you more about your future than a school's ranking ever will.