New Students

Here you will find a variety of templates related to student enrollment. Use the links below to jump to specific examples on this page:
 
The examples below provide a basic template to congratulate incoming students. You may edit, remove, or add content as desired.  Replace the text in RED with your school's info.  Text in  [Yellow]  represents personal data from your spreadsheet or list of students. 
 


Enrollment


Please not that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about enrolling students. You will most likely want to create a web-only enrollment story.

Merit Title:   [Fall 2017]  Enrollment

Merit Summary:  [Merit University]  welcomes more than [1,000] students who will begin their [MU] college career in [Fall 2017].



 
Accepted Students


Please not that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about accepted students. You will most likely want to create a web-only acceptance story.

Merit Title:   [Fall 2017]  Accepted Students

Merit Summary:  [Merit University]  accepts more than [1,000] students for potential enrollment in [Fall 2017].

   


Freshmen Scholarships


In the following example, the spreadsheet that accompanies this story includes the name of the scholarship film and a full-sentence description of the film.

Merit Title:  [Merit University]  Scholarship Recipients

Merit Summary:  

Each year, [Merit University] awards more than [300] scholarships to incoming students. This year, [MU] has awarded a total of [$450,000] to [312] students.

   


   


Orientation Attendance


Please not that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about students attending orientation. You will most likely want to create a web-only orientation story.

Merit Title:   The Newest  [Merit University]  Students Visit Campus for Orientation

Merit Summary:  On [August 25-27], the newest [Merit University]   [Mascots] and their families attended New Student Orientation.  [MU]  Freshman orientation is a way for students to meet other students, become familiar with campus services, and register for fall classes.

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