The Year Ends. Its Lessons Don’t
A SCHOOL year after their first day together in the New England mountains, this year’s Baret students will graduate in a week-long program on the Japanese island of Hok- kaido. Baret’s second cohort will graduate in Northern China. Graduation will be a week of sharing reflections, cementing friendships and presenting projects. Stu- dents will walk off the island, proud and prepared, inquisitive and inspired, ready to make the most out of their years ahead. While a year like no other comes to end, the benefits of Baret will last. Just-graduated high school seniors be- gin university a year ahead in perspective and maturity than their fellow freshman. They have designed their plan for college , not fallen into it. Current college students return to cam- pus better equipped to inform and craft their important last years of university. Baret alumni for life, students have an entirely new set of global friendships forged from an intense year in unfamil- iar environments. More ready for careers in any coun- try of their choice, students take home a special badge, something forever unique on their CV : they were a Baret Scholar. If they choose to apply to college (or transfer to another one) during or after their Baret year, they are more attractive appli- cants to the universities they really want . Most important, Baret graduates will be culturally literate beyond their borders, for- ever seeing the world, and their home coun- tries too, through a more informed lens. They are more ready to achieve what the young people of all generations most desire: making the world a better place.
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BARET SCHOLARS
BACKGROUND & VISION
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