
CEO World
The $40,000 Semester: Trading Textbooks for Farm Chores
At Vermont’s Mountain School, teenagers are paying $40,000 for a semester defined not by lecture halls, but by 418 acres of manual labor. Students spend their days hauling water, tending livestock, and scrubbing composting toilets, betting that this rigorous immersion in communal farm life serves as a definitive edge in elite college admissions.























