Student application form template

About this student application form

A student application form is used when places are limited and students must apply: a selective school, a summer program, a leadership camp, an exchange, a club with tryouts or a competition. It collects academic records, activities and achievements, a short personal statement and a teacher reference.

For funding, the scholarship and financial aid forms add questions about need and use of funds.

What’s on the student application form

The template has 7 sections and 17 questions. Every one can be renamed, moved or deleted.

• Student: Full name; Date of birth; Current school; Current class / grade; Email; Phone
• Program: Program applied for; Start date
• Academics: Recent results table (Subject, Grade or marks, Year)
• Activities and achievements: Activities table (Activity or award, Role or level, Years)
• Personal statement: Why do you want to join this program, and what will you bring to it?
• Parent or guardian: Name; Phone; Email; Parent or guardian signature with date
• Student declaration: Agreement: “The information in this application is true.”; Student signature with date

Tips

• Give a word limit for the personal statement.
• Ask for one teacher reference using the student recommendation form.
• Publish your selection criteria with the form.

Four ways to save it

A fillable PDF has typing boxes, tick boxes and choices built in. A printable PDF gives clean boxes and writing lines for pen and paper. The Word file can be edited further, and the HTML code adds the same questions to a website. Browse more form templates, or design a completely different layout in the custom form builder.