Do Acton Graduates go to College?

Will an Acton Academy diploma get me into Harvard or Stanford?

By this time, you might have the impression that Acton Academies are really different from traditional schools. Like, REALLY different.

You’re right. Acton Academies are off-the-charts different. On purpose.

But if you think Acton students have limited options after graduation, think again! In their years at Acton, students learn to be independent thinkers and self-starters. They launch real businesses. They learn practical, marketable skills. They find their calling.

Acton graduates, from around the world, who apply to college are attractive candidates, displaying responsibility, maturity and a diversity of experiences that is rare among their peers.

Graduates who start their own businesses have a leg up on the competition because, by the time they turned 18, they’d already started and ran several businesses and completed dozens of internships.

There are no limits for Acton graduates – they are ready to follow whatever path they choose.
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Acton Academy graduates who do intend to apply for college have a choice:

1. Translate badges into a diploma and transcript identical to those issued by top college prep high schools, a strategy most effective for second tier state universities with more bureaucratic admission hurdles; 
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2. Present a rich portfolio of work and a fistful of reference letters from apprenticeships, an approach favored by alternative schoolers and homeschoolers for more selective universities like Stanford or Harvard.

Increasingly universities like Harvard and Stanford covet self-directed, focused graduates like ours and offer large discounts on tuition.

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