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[quote=Anonymous]On the bright side, the new con's marketing material didn't require much of a rewrite. His trademark -- It'll give you EVERYTHING and be EASY and FUN and even kind of cheap (at its high price) considering you're getting EVERYTHING ...... Read again now, in a slightly different form, his whole career-long schtick that should always trigger the "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is" response but sadly doesn't for many people appears as such an obvious con....Unfortunately most people who see this book won't know enough about his many similar unkept promises in the past not to fall for it. But I expect that isn't the case.....Good reason for the con artist to seek his new marks outside the U.S.

The Baret
Program
BARET SCHOLARS is an intense experience
not a course. There is a great deal of learning
but no professors. There are deliverables, but
no homework. This will be a year of much
reading, but there is no required text. Students
will reflect on their year, but there
are no tests. As one gap year proponent said,
“This is not a year off, but a year very much on.”
Hundreds of discussions with students,
families, schools and universities tell us
that students want a mix of curated, structured
programs and independent exploration.
Baret delivers on that, providing a
combination of the well planned and the
spontaneous, detailed in the pages of this
book. Knowing that students learn in their
own ways, the Baret experience is built
from a recipe of approaches. Sometimes
the 180 student cohort functions together,
sometimes as student groups of 12, often
one-on-one with Fellows, and through
completely independent work.
Curated and
Structured
IF BARET Scholars were a university—and
we know it isn’t—we’d like you to think of
it as a dual Masters program in International
Affairs and Life Design, not after a
BA but before it, and hopefully beyond it.
In addition to Afternoon Options, there
are three curated portions:
THE MORNING PROGRAM. Organized by Baret’s
Global and Country teams, the Morning
Program in each country brings 35
experts in front of our students, a total of
250 thought leaders across the year. Monday
through Thursday during each of the 3
weeks in the 7 Home Base cities, Baret organizes
a 3-hour program for the entire cohort.
Think of this as a traveling, TED-like,
conference which immerses Baret students
in the culture, politics, arts, businesses, and
economies of each region. As content rich as
the best of college courses, it differs dramatically
in “production value.” With Peabody
Award winning experience amongst our
team, we combine engagement, entertainment,
and education through talks, discussions,
interviews, student participation and
performances, which provide intellectual
windows into these regions along with inspiring
models to think about themselves
and design their own lives.
FELLOWSHIPS: 105 TO CHOOSE FROM.
Through the year, Baret will offer 105 different
Fellowship programs as electives for
its students, 15 possibilities in each of the 7
regions. Led by a Baret Fellow and limited
to 12 students each, the Fellowships are 10-
day programs organized around different
interests from innovation to civilization, to
nature to culture. All Fellowships occur outside
the Home Base cities on the Baret route
giving students experiences well beyond the
world’s mega cities. Students can experience
the small towns and wilderness areas
of China and Africa, the entrepreneurism
and art of the Americas, and the history and
environmental concerns of some of the Fellowships
are offered in adjacent countries
including, to name a few, Mexico, Argentina,
Peru, Greece, Jordan, the UAE, Saudi
Arabia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania,
Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Korea.
ADVISING: Except weekends, there is a 30
minute, daily “House” meeting for students
and their Fellow to catch up and share experiences
and problems. Additionally, each
week, Baret students also meet one-on-one
with their assigned Fellow. Modeled after
the Oxford/Cambridge tutorial system,
these sessions provide students with life
design techniques, college preparation, and
inspiration for their independent projects.
Using well researched techniques, Fellows
help students plan to get the most from their
coming college experience and imminent
adult lives. Key deliverables include Fellows-
led-initiatives called “Designing your
College Years” in the fall and “Designing
your Life” in the spring.[/quote]

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