Application & Placement Process

1. Meet with their student success coach to discuss the possibility of NSE and how it can fit with student’s academic plan.
2. Review General NSE Information
3. Meet with UMR NSE Coordinator, Parry Telander to discuss school choices and review pertinent NSE information and ask questions. Email tela0009@r.umn.edu to schedule an appointment

To complete the NSE application, students should follow these instructions:

1. Apply Here! Complete the application and “submit”. It typically takes 30-60 minutes to complete this application (including essays).
2. Complete required references for NSE application and submit.
3. Email tela0009@r.umn.edu to schedule an NSE Application Review Appointment; students should be prepared to discuss:
   • Completed application and essays
   • Pay the $200 application fee (non-refundable) Checks made payable to University of Minnesota Rochester

The NSE Timeline

1. Before the end of January
   • Discuss with your student success coach about where and whether NSE fits with your academic plan.
   • Review NSE General Information to learn more about the program
   • Begin your NSE research.
   • Meet with the UMR NSE Coordinator to discuss school choices, review pertinent NSE information, and ask questions.
2. Before the February 15^th deadline
   • Submit the online NSE Application (including essays and references)
3. Late March
   • After the NSE Placement Conference, attend the NSE Placement Meeting to find out your official NSE placement.
   • Sign a Placement Acceptance Form.
4. April
   • Turn in 13 Credit Exemption (if needed) and begin working on the NSE Academic Plan with your Student Success Coach.

Applications are reviewed and ranked by the Director of Undergraduate Advising, who ensures that applicants meet the eligibility requirements. The applications for students who are applying to the same school are ranked (rankings only apply to a student's first-choice campus). Rankings are based upon a variety of factors, including:

• The quality and clarity of the student's essays.
• The student's intended course of study and its relevance to their academic and professional interests and goals.
• Cumulative GPA and/or pattern of grades on the student's transcript.
• Personal and/or academic preparedness.
• When applicable: demonstrated language proficiency for schools in Puerto Rico or Quebec
• Other factors (cultural immersion, local connections, etc).
• An interview, if requested.

NSE Placement Conference

Approved applications are taken to the annual NSE Placement Conference in early March. Exchanges are negotiated by NSE coordinators from all participating NSE schools. Placement decisions are made according to the openness of the respective tuition payment plans of the host institutions (as indicated in the black box next to every school in the NSE Directory).

• Open – The campus will accept all qualified applicants.
• Uneven – The campus will accept a few more incoming students than the number of their outgoing applicants who are placed.
• Even – The campus will accept incoming applicants not to exceed the number of their own outgoing applicants who are placed.
• 1:1 – The campus will accept students only from those campuses at which their own students are placed.

Except for those campuses which can accept all eligible applicants ("open" schools), NSE coordinators vary in the ways in which they accept students to achieve balances with their outgoing NSE student population. There are no guarantees of acceptance, and if accepted, you will be accepted by only one institution. If your first choice campus is not able to accept you, your placement request will then be considered by the institution of your second choice and then by your third, and so on. If none of your campus choices can accept you, you can work with your home NSE coordinator to explore a post-conference placement.