High School Academic Program
Wentworth takes advantage of the fact that it is one of few schools in the United States that has a college and high school sharing the same campus by encouraging all its high school students to gain college credit before they graduate from high school. In 2007, Wentworth announced that they would offer a three-tiered program designed to allow all of its high school students to graduate with some college credit. The Wentworth Launching Scholars program allows students to earn simultaneous high school graduation credit for college classes, and graduate with approximately 1 semester (6-12 credit hours) or more of college already complete. The Wentworth Distinguished Scholars program participants may graduate with approximately 1 year (24 - 32 credit hours) or more of college credit. The most advanced program, the Accelerated Scholars Program, allows its students to graduate from high school and obtain an Associate's degree from the junior college simultaneously.
Over 95% of Wentworth graduates go on to college. In the last twenty-five years, Wentworth has sent more than 150 cadets to top twenty colleges, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, including the Air Force Academy, West Point, the Naval Academy, Harvard and Yale. Thousands more Wentworth students have gone on to earn degrees at private and public colleges and universities throughout the country.
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