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First-Year Student participates in Seventeen Magazine and MySpace Project

(New York, NY) Marymount Manhattan is pleased to announce that Arianna Meli, a first-year student at MMC, has been selected to be a part of a special project spearheaded by Seventeen magazine. “Freshman Fifteen” features a group of 15 female students who will share their experiences as first-year college and university students in the magazine and online through MySpace pages. Seventeen has partnered with MySpace for the project, which serves as a resource for college-bound teenagers. Meli and the other 14 participants will write daily blogs and post videos on MySpace chronicling their college experiences. The project is also featured in the October 2007 issue of the magazine, and will be mentioned in the college section of future issues.

Meli was selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants to the “Freshman 15” project. Students were selected based on their personality, extra curricular activities and diverse backgrounds, enabling teens across the country to relate to their experiences. Michigan State University, Chaminade University of Honolulu, University of Notre Dame, Buffalo State College, and New York University are among the diverse array of colleges and universities represented in the project. Meli’s insights will reach a wide audience of MySpace users and about 13 millionSeventeen readers each month.

“The ‘Freshman 15’ will give millions of teens an inside scoop on the often overwhelming emotional and lifestyle changes that take place when you go to college,” says Seventeen editor-in-chief Ann Shoket. “We want to make the freshman year less daunting by letting girls in on daily college life and allowing them to interact directly with each of the ‘Freshman 15.’ As a result, Seventeen’s readers and MySpace’s users will be way ahead of the game.”

The project will extend until May 2008.

Published: September 25, 2007

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