I used to go to public school in US (9 and 10th grade) and then I had to move back to Korea and international schools are HELLA expensive - costs at least 25k per year and goes upto 33k JUST for the tuition. Our family COULD afford it but the problem was that my sister is attending private university in US and yk it cost A LOT. I am also international, so we can’t get any FAs or scholarships and literally my sister’s tuition + dorm + meal and stuff cost about my dad’s income. So I had to go to online school called Laurel Springs, but the problem is that I am extremely worried how much disadvantage I would get attending online school. How much disadvantage do you get if you attend online school? Would they think GPA I got from laurel springs is rigged?
According to their school profile, the do send students to the top schools in the country. That demonstrates that the school is not automatically dismissed. The one thing I would wonder about is if these students have something very special about them that is causing the to attend an online school. An example would be high level athletes. Sometimes to allow for their training, the students may take a non traditional path in school. Another examples are people in the Arts. There average ACT is 24.8, so it isn’t a high end academic school.