<p>Has anyone heard of the National Name Exchange program?</p>
<p>The National Name Exchange is a consortium of twenty-nine nationally known universities which annually collect and exchange the names of their talented but underrepresented ethnic minority students who are in their sophomore, junior or senior year of their undergraduate education. The purpose of the Exchange is to ensure that participating universities continue to identify a pool of qualified students who could be recruited to the graduate programs at these institutions. The consortium of universities conducts other activities consistent with the national efforts to increase the enrollment of traditionally underrepresented peoples in graduate education.</p>
<p>Scotch, are you part of the National Name Exchange? I’m currently a Northwestern student, but I just received an email from the University of Minnesota (!?!) about graduate school preparation and their membership in the NNE. How does the NNE select students to which schools? Can a student change schools if they don’t want UofMinn, for example?</p>
<p>Hey, sorry for the thread bump, but I figured that this would be better than a new thread.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any new information? I got invited even though I’m a Chinese male, so I’m anything but a URM. So I’m confused. Is it useful?</p>
<p>And will grad institutions be sent info about me?</p>
<p>Yea what’s with this thing, I just got an invitation to it. A bit of googling brought me to this thread, lol. The official webpage doesn’t really say anything useful. </p>
<p>How exactly do they match you with grad schools? Do they actually get people like potential thesis advisers to contact you, or is it just some idiots at HR pointing around? If it’s the latter it doesn’t sound very useful…</p>
<p>Also the email said “ethnic minority” not “URM” so I guess maybe chinese is considered that?</p>
<p>Noone knows…? I find this interesting.</p>
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