Do colleges receive any notification of your first-choices status before March 1st?

Hi everyone, I saw on the NMSC Rules and Eligibility sheet that they send out first-choice lists to colleges on March 1st. Is that the earliest that the colleges will be notified? Do colleges know if you selected them as a first-choice before March 1st. I’m asking because I’m thinking about changing my first-choice school but I worry that my original choice college will discover that I changed my first choice school.

You have time before March 1st. They don’t send anything before then.

@JBStillFlying So colleges will know if I change my first choice?

Colleges won’t know anything till that first list goes out on March 1st. They don’t have access to your portal.

@JBStillFlying Thanks for the help man, this really cleared things up for me.