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.
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.