NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
- We'll be holding a Zoom info session for prospective students on December 4 at 5:30pm. Here's the link! (We held an in-person mass meeting in November. This session is intended for anyone who couldn't attend that earlier meeting, but all are welcome!)
- Applications for the coming NELP will be released in December. The due date for priority consideration will be January 15. After that, admissions will be rolling. We strongly encourage applicants to apply by the January 15 deadline.
- For students who apply by the priority deadline, you'll be notified of your placement in the NELP 2025 cohort by the add/drop deadline: January 28.
Who Can Apply To NELP?
All University of Michigan students are eligible to apply for NELP, as are special students, international students, and students from other colleges. Some seniors participate in NELP after they graduate from UM. You certainly don't need to be an English concentrator to apply--NELP students come from across the University and from many different disciplines: Business majors, art and music school students, engineers, folks who are pre-med come to NELP--and of course lots of English majors. The real question to ask is whether you're ready to be part of an academic community of people who are eager to explore and experiment with the life of the mind--a place where people take very seriously a world of ideas and language, poetry and ethics and logic, food and work and communal living and the wilderness. And where we work together to think carefully about all of these things--what they mean--and what they should mean--to us and in the world around us.
NELP is an intense, small, short-term experience. Because every day counts for a great deal, NELP requires continuous participation. If you have an important family event, a summer job, or another obligation that conflicts with any part of NELP's schedule—typically from late-April through mid-June—you should not apply to NELP this year.
Applications for NELP are due to the English Department after UM students return from winter break in January, usually during the second or third week of Winter Term. At that time, all applicants sign up for an interview with a member or two of the NELP Admissions team, to be held the week after applicaitons come in. See the application timeline for exact dates
