Baret Scholars

Baret Scholars Baret Scholars explore 7 regions of the world, their passions, and their purpose.

Do you want to apply to become a Baret Scholar, but aren’t sure where to start?In this post, we give you all the informa...
04/09/2026

Do you want to apply to become a Baret Scholar, but aren’t sure where to start?

In this post, we give you all the information you need to start an application. There’s no one mold that our Scholars fit into, but what they have in common is a desire to journey across the world with a group of curious, open-minded friends.

Our applications for 2027-2028 recently opened, so now is the time to apply! Read this post and get started on your journey to your best year yet!

29/08/2026

Do you want to see the world?

Are you wondering what it means to be a Baret Scholar?

Baret is gap year, but first, it is a journey: through five continents, seven cosmopolitan cities, and dozens of other locales:

New York City, Sao Paulo, Paris, Istanbul, Nairobi, Delhi, Beijing, the Amazon River, Hong Kong, Patagonia, Masai Mara, Nepal, London, Watamu, Morocco, and many, many others.

It is a journey where you will meet and be in dialogue with screenwriters and Oscar-winning documentarians, with founders of innovative tech companies, with political scientists and Opera singers and conservationists and explorers.

It is a journey that will surprise you every day.

But it is also an internal journey: a journey to align yourself with your values, your passions, and your future self. A journey of becoming, of finding your most resilient, adventurous, open-minded self. A journey with an international cohort which, even when it’s over, will mean you have friends in every corner of the world.

Our applications for 2027-2028 are now open. Take the plunge: apply now!

Ever wondered who accompanies our Scholars around the world? Our Fellows, Deans, and staff are handpicked for their expe...
25/08/2026

Ever wondered who accompanies our Scholars around the world?

Our Fellows, Deans, and staff are handpicked for their expertise, their accomplishments, and their love of working with young minds. They come from all walks of life: explorers, filmmakers, founders, scientists, doctors, the law and art history.

They a an essential ingredient to the Baret year. They help guide our students in their journey around the world, advise them on their present and future, and are there for every life-changing moment and pivotal memory.

We want to celebrate them with a post. Here’s to our Traveling Team for 2027!

Our Scholars are lucky enough to travel with Luis Haddad, Baret’s photographer and videographer, who documents their jou...
14/08/2026

Our Scholars are lucky enough to travel with Luis Haddad, Baret’s photographer and videographer, who documents their journey every step of the way. He’s been to the ends of the Earths with our Scholars, and knows as well as anyone how special this journey is.

This Instagram is made possible by his hard work. In the course of one Baret year he takes thousands upon thousands in order to get the best photos. Our Scholars are grateful to him, as is our staff, because we know at the end of any given day, week, month and year, there will always be a picture that captures just how special Baret is.

Here is a selection of some of his favorite photographs from the past two years. There’s at least a photograph for each region. Luis has selected these photographs personally. Some of them are of cherished moments, others are simply photos he finds particularly beautiful.

We are so grateful for your skill and commitment to capturing the beauty of Baret, Luis. We can’t wait to see the next batch!

Each new day with Baret Scholars is a new experience. It is a gap year of ceaseless novelty, of insight and learning and...
10/08/2026

Each new day with Baret Scholars is a new experience. It is a gap year of ceaseless novelty, of insight and learning and unparalleled experiences that one can only get with Baret.

Here we have collected some of the best photographs from our Scholar’s travels – each of them, taken by a Scholar who was doing something or seeing something that they knew they might never see or do again. There are memories captured here, priceless memories, behind these photos.

Take a minute and imagine them: the conversations, the late nights staying up and remembering the magic of the days, the journeys around the moments: the flights, the boats, and long drives.

It’s not only the moments that make Baret, not only the pictures or the sights and sounds, it’s the people and the journey. Ask each of our Scholars and they’ll tell you that these pictures have their own story.

And thank you to the Scholars who provided these photos, who are tagged in each one: Luisa, Iker, Maria, Iris Richard, Ali, Alex, and Valeria! We are so honored to get to share these remarkable pieces with the world!

📸: Luisa Iker María Iris Richard c: Alejandro Perez Duarte ValAlejandro Perez DuarteVal Trujillo

04/08/2026

“It offers you so much freedom, unlike any other educational system I’ve seen so far. You can do whatever you want.”

If you’re wondering what it means to be a Baret Scholar, there’s no one better to ask than someone who has lived our global journey.

Our very own Scholar, Jackie, wants to let you know how much Baret has meant to him. Listen as he talks about the intangible benefits of a year journeying around the world: the freedom, the possibility, the ability to pursue your own projects and travel with a cohort from every corner of the world.

Our ‘26-’27 cohort is still accepting applications for the journey beginning in September. Apply now!

Between the ceremony rehearsals, our Travelling Team organized one last side quest: a hike up Buffalo Pass, in the hills...
31/07/2026

Between the ceremony rehearsals, our Travelling Team organized one last side quest: a hike up Buffalo Pass, in the hills above Sai Kung, where the group was staying. It was much harder than expected, but after a year of hiking through snow, rocks and avenues, it was a challenge they could take on. Half of them might look lost, though all of them are smiling, and the view of the skyline past the dense vegetation was worth every step.
Sai Kung is a fishing town with a seafood market along the waterfront, where you pick your fish from the tanks out front. For the Scholars who had never chosen dinner out of a tank, it was one more first.
Back in downtown, our Scholars opened an exhibition: The World We Walked, their own photographs from across the year. Alice Donatti Mondin, a Baret alumna, curated the selection remotely, while the Scholars handled the printing and the hanging, hours before the doors opened.
Then came the final presentations, where each Scholar shared their finished Capstone Project and said what these months had actually done to them. Some were funny, others more thoughtful, but there is no question we will be thinking about them for a long time.
These are the last photographs we have from the journey. The Scholars have scattered, some into lecture halls, some into first jobs, all of them carrying a year of the world into spaces that have no idea where they have been. We held on to this final roll: the B-side to the closing chapter of their best year yet.
Our Scholars learned the Baret Way: one place ends and you are already setting foot in the next. This one just continues without us.
Thank you, once again, to our Scholars, for making sure the ending was so much more than a ceremony.

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