{"answer":"The Common App opened on August 1, 2026, and UC and Cal State take fall 2027 applications only from October 1 to November 30, 2026. At the 50 colleges here, November 1, 2026 is the most common early deadline, and regular deadlines outside California land in early January 2027.","as_of":"October 2026","date":"2026-10-15","dek":"The table holds each college's own posted dates for fall 2027 first-year entry. Five rows are blank, because those colleges publish no fixed date we could read.","faq":[{"a":"The Common App opened on August 1, 2026, and UC and Cal State take fall 2027 applications only from October 1 to November 30, 2026.","q":"When did the Common App open for fall 2027?"},{"a":"All nine UC campuses here show the same dates, and so do the three Cal State campuses. The filing period opens October 1, 2026 and closes November 30, 2026.","q":"When is the UC application due for fall 2027?"},{"a":"At the 50 colleges here, November 1, 2026 is the most common early deadline, and regular deadlines outside California land in early January 2027.","q":"What is the most common college application deadline?"}],"findings":[{"h":"November 1, 2026 carries the most weight.","p":"It is the Early Decision date at Penn, Cornell, Brown, Northwestern and NYU. It is the Restrictive Early Action date at Harvard, Yale and Stanford. It is the Early Action date at a long list of state flagships. Michigan, Ohio State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, Indiana and Tennessee are all on that list. A few colleges close earlier: Georgia Tech, UT Austin, Florida State and North Carolina all set their first early round at October 15, 2026."},{"h":"California runs one window and no early round.","p":"All nine UC campuses here show the same dates, and so do the three Cal State campuses. The filing period opens October 1, 2026 and closes November 30, 2026. Neither system has Early Decision or Early Action, so filing in October rather than November changes nothing. That window also shuts a month or more before most private colleges read regular applications."},{"h":"A few large publics never really close.","p":"Penn State, Pitt and Alabama post a priority date rather than a final one, and Arizona posts only an Early Action date. The regular column is blank for all four. Michigan State shows February 1, 2027 for a guaranteed decision and April 1, 2027 as its regular date. Central Florida runs Early Action on October 15, 2026 and keeps regular open to May 1, 2027."}],"license":"CC BY 4.0 \u2014 quote with attribution to Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach)","method":"The dates are each college's own posted deadlines for fall 2027 first-year entry, as its admissions page read in October 2026, plus the four application systems' own pages for the first table. The rows are 50 of the 100 most-applied-to colleges, in the order the file holds them, and they cover first-year applicants only, not transfer or graduate applicants. Five colleges publish no fixed date that could be read from their own pages, so their rows are blank: Clemson, Purdue, Columbia, the University of Virginia and CU Boulder. A blank cell on any other row means the college does not offer that plan.","question":"When are the college application deadlines for fall 2027?","related":[{"label":"The seven Common App essay prompts for 2026-2027","url":"/research/common-app-prompts-2026-27"},{"label":"How many colleges students actually apply to","url":"/research/how-many-colleges-to-apply-to"},{"label":"Which colleges require the SAT or ACT","url":"/test-policy"},{"label":"Acceptance rates at 100 colleges","url":"/research/acceptance-rates-100-colleges"}],"sections":[{"h2":"The early plans are not the same promise","paragraphs":["Early Decision means one college and a promise to attend if admitted. The table shows it at ten of the colleges here. Three of those run a second binding round in January, called Early Decision II: NYU, Northeastern and Boston University.","Early Action is non-binding. It is an earlier answer with no promise attached. Restrictive Early Action is non-binding too, but it limits where else a student may apply early. Harvard, Yale and Stanford all set it at November 1, 2026. Each of the three writes its own limits, so read them one at a time."]},{"h2":"Five rows are blank, and three others need a word","paragraphs":["Clemson, Purdue, Columbia, the University of Virginia and CU Boulder print no date here. The deadline pages for Columbia and Virginia gave no date at all. Purdue's deadline table did not appear as text on its page. Clemson's and CU Boulder's pages say the fall 2027 application is open, but neither says when it closes.","Three other rows need a word of explanation. Pitt's December 1, 2026 is a scholarship date, not a closing date, and its process is rolling. USC's page gives the November 1, 2026 early date and no regular one, so that cell is blank. Penn State posts Early Action on November 1, 2026 and a recommended December 1, 2026, and names no final close."]},{"h2":"What a family should do with this","paragraphs":["Put the earliest date on your kid's list at the top of the calendar and work backward from it. For a California family with any UC or Cal State on the list, that date is November 30, 2026, and the window does not reopen. Essays and recommendation requests have to be done before it, not over winter break.","Then read each college's own page once in the fall, because dates move. A blank cell here means the college published no date for that plan. It does not mean a late application is fine. Where a college posts a priority date and no close, earlier is simply better, because the scholarship money is attached to the early date."]}],"slug":"college-application-deadlines-2027","sources":[{"label":"Common App - 2026-27 season launch","url":"https://www.commonapp.org/blog/common-app-opens-application-launch-2026-27-season/"},{"label":"UC Admissions - UCLA apply page (systemwide dates)","url":"https://admission.ucla.edu/apply"},{"label":"UC Santa Barbara - Dates & Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/deadlines"},{"label":"Cal State LA - Fall 2027 Admission Deadlines","url":"https://www.calstatela.edu/admissions/fall-2027-admission-deadlines-undergraduates"},{"label":"CSU Long Beach - First-Time First-Year Application Process","url":"https://www.csulb.edu/admissions/first-time-first-year-student-application-process"},{"label":"UT Austin - Apply as a Freshman","url":"https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/freshman/"},{"label":"NYU - All Freshmen Applicants","url":"https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/how-to-apply/all-freshmen-applicants.html"},{"label":"Northeastern - Admissions FAQ","url":"https://admissions.northeastern.edu/application-information/frequently-asked-admissions-questions/"},{"label":"University of Michigan - Requirements & Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/first-year-applicants/requirements-deadlines"},{"label":"Penn State - How to Apply","url":"https://www.psu.edu/admission/undergraduate/how-to-apply/"},{"label":"SDSU - First-Year Students","url":"https://admissions.sdsu.edu/first-years"},{"label":"USC Admission Blog - EA/ED Deadline FAQ","url":"https://www.admissionblog.usc.edu/p/early-action-and-early-decision-application"},{"label":"Boston University - Important Deadlines","url":"https://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/deadlines"},{"label":"Florida State - First-Year Apply","url":"https://admissions.fsu.edu/first-year/apply"},{"label":"Purdue - Admissions Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.purdue.edu/become-student/deadlines/"},{"label":"Ohio State - Apply Step-by-Step (Columbus freshmen)","url":"https://undergrad.osu.edu/apply/freshmen-columbus/apply-step-by-step"},{"label":"UC Santa Cruz - Dates & Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.ucsc.edu/posts/dates-deadlines"},{"label":"ASU - First-Year Student","url":"https://admission.asu.edu/apply/first-year"},{"label":"UC systemwide - Dates & Deadlines","url":"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-first-year/dates-and-deadlines.html"},{"label":"UIUC - First-Year Dates & Deadlines","url":"https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/apply/freshman/dates"},{"label":"Cornell - First-Year Applicants","url":"https://admissions.cornell.edu/how-to-apply/first-year-applicants"},{"label":"University of Florida - Freshman Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.ufl.edu/apply/freshman/deadlines/"},{"label":"USF - Freshman Dates & Deadlines","url":"https://www.usf.edu/admissions/freshmen/admission-information/dates-deadlines.aspx"},{"label":"UW-Madison - Apply as a Freshman","url":"https://admissions.wisc.edu/apply-as-a-freshman/"},{"label":"UC Riverside - Admissions home","url":"https://admissions.ucr.edu/"},{"label":"UW Seattle - 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Important Dates and Deadlines","url":"https://admissions.utk.edu/important-dates-and-deadlines/"}],"tables":[{"columns":[{"fmt":"str","key":"system","label":"System"},{"fmt":"str","key":"opens","label":"Opens"},{"fmt":"str","key":"closes","label":"Closes"},{"fmt":"url","key":"source_url","label":"Source"}],"h2":"The four application systems","intro":"One row per system, with the fall 2027 filing window it publishes.","note":"These are the four systems most families meet, with the dates each one publishes for fall 2027 first-year entry. The Common App and ApplyTexas have no closing date of their own: each member college sets that, and those dates are in the second table. UC and Cal State share one filing period across every campus, and the UC application itself opens August 1, 2026 even though nothing can be submitted until October 1.","rows":[{"closes":null,"opens":"2026-08-01","source_url":"https://www.commonapp.org/blog/common-app-opens-application-launch-2026-27-season/","system":"Common App"},{"closes":"2026-11-30","opens":"2026-10-01","source_url":"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-first-year/dates-and-deadlines.html","system":"University of California (all campuses)"},{"closes":"2026-11-30","opens":"2026-10-01","source_url":"https://www.csulb.edu/admissions/first-time-first-year-student-application-process","system":"California State University (Cal State Apply)"},{"closes":null,"opens":"2026-08-01","source_url":"https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/freshman/","system":"ApplyTexas"}]},{"columns":[{"fmt":"str","key":"name","label":"College"},{"fmt":"str","key":"ed1","label":"Early Decision I"},{"fmt":"str","key":"ed2","label":"Early Decision II"},{"fmt":"str","key":"ea","label":"Early Action"},{"fmt":"str","key":"rea","label":"Restrictive Early Action"},{"fmt":"str","key":"regular","label":"Regular Decision"},{"fmt":"str","key":"priority","label":"Priority"},{"fmt":"str","key":"note","label":"Note"},{"fmt":"url","key":"source_url","label":"Source"}],"h2":"Fall 2027 deadlines at 50 of the most-applied-to colleges","intro":"One row per college, with its own posted dates. A blank cell means no date published for that plan.","note":"Each date is the college's own posted deadline for fall 2027 first-year entry, printed as the year, month and day it falls on. A blank cell means the college publishes no date for that plan, or publishes none we could read: Clemson, Purdue, Columbia, the University of Virginia and CU Boulder print no date at all. Three rows carry a note of their own: Pitt, USC and Purdue. Pitt's December 1, 2026 is a scholarship-consideration date on a rolling process, not a closing date, and the pages for USC and Purdue state no regular-decision date. No row here showed the prior fall 2026 cycle instead of fall 2027. UC Merced's and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's rows carry their system's filing period, because neither campus page served a date of its own. 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