Seniors! Have you considered Grad Ads?

For those unaware, Grad ads are paid tributes for the yearbook to celebrate your achievements and hard work. If you are considering a Grad ad their are some requirements that need to be met:

The way to submit your senior portrait is via the “Yearbook Snap” app or website. On the same website there is the option to purchase a Grad Ad on yearbooksForever.com and which are due by December 1, 2024. Tansy Velush, Editor in chief of the yearbook, has been working to answer any questions that people might have that concern grad ads

“They can choose whether they want a full page, half page, quarter page or 8th page and the pricing is the 8th page is $50 and you can add up to two photos or you can add a message. The quarter page is $70 and can add up to 5 photos, the half page is 160$ and you can add up to 8 photo’s and the full page is $300 and you can add up to twelve photos,” Tansy Velush, editor-in-chief of yearbook said.

“I don’t think there’s any design rules like that, the most important thing is on the sheet and that all ballard families will soon be receiving information with more details, but right now we aren’t sure on all the details,” Velush said. 

“For grad ad’s their less guidelines for it then the senior photos but ideally we want as clear photos as the family can supply, no heavily edited photos and such and especially because families like to send photos for their students as a little kid or maybe even more recently like their senior photo, so anything high quality is good,” Velush said.

Additionally, buying grad ads are the best way you can support the members of the Yearbook Staff, the profits from those sales go to making the final product of yearbooks to come and making sure their can be a yearbook

“The profit the Grad Ad makes goes to support and fund a lot of the resources for the yearbook and it’s just an extra thing that maybe the family wants to add on for their student to just celebrate and celebrate their achievements,” Velish said. “There’s really a variety of photos people end up submitting, a lot of them are photos of their student when they were younger and sometimes its photos of them throughout their life or photos of their family, it depends on what people really want to celebrate their students, it’s not necessarily to take any specific photo for Grad Ad that personal for it, but when they are choosing photos then they should think about what it looks like when it enlarged on the page, and it all comes down to what type of photos and what type of message the family is trying to send, some people like to joke around alot but it’s better if its not some sort of gag gift and something more thoughtful and more important.”