Prepared me exceptionally well for a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. High quality education from start to finish. read more

Great Lakes Adventist Academ - Middle Schools & High Schools Near Me - Edmore, Michigan

Great school with dedicated staff and teachers. I know many kids who have gone here and almost all have loved it and also their parents have been appreciative and grateful to have sent their kids to this boarding school. read more

Great Lakes Adventist Academ - Middle Schools & High Schools Near Me - Edmore, Michigan

A large amount of my family has gone there and each one says that it's the same as it was. I have an aunt that went to GLAA 15 years ago and half of the teachers are the same as well as the staff. She says that the food was just as bad, and the rules worse. Most people I've talked to say "the school may-be bad but you become family with your class mates." This is true, but you need to get along with them. The atmosphere is toxic, and unchanged since the early 2000's. If you were to watch Grease and compare the cliques you would see no difference. (Words I have said) "you got the gymnists and jocks at this table, nerds and teacher pets here, the outcasts here, and the "bad crowd" here. It was so bad that the "bad crowd" was the nicest group. As long as your in a good group you'll have fun but if you don't have a clique then your in a line for nooses at the local dorm store. The work was ridiculous, the supervisors would give a supervisory role to people for the sheer reason that they lived 5 min. away. And because they were the extension of the staff they had the power to damn you to Hell if they wanted to. I'm not joking if power got to someone's head and you pissed them off just a little bit, you would be cleaning walls for the next week. And the food was just as bad, I had acne flair ups every time I would eat their food, just eating ramon for a week was healthier. And just to sum up how they took "care" of us I had found a box of bread In the freezer from 2002 it was older than half of the school. Half of the staff had the ability to join aarp if they wanted to. And I haven't even talked about prices or rules. For eating at the cafiterea 3 meals a day was $3000 a semester. Along with camera's every where, and if you weren't seen by camera's for a while you would get in trouble for any reason they made up. The rules were so lax that if the teacher liked you you could stab someone and she would laugh and get back to class but if she didn't like you then if you were to chew gum or work ahead then you would get the equivalent to solitary for a prison. Also when they did this you couldn't work in the place you work every day at just in case you might actually like working there. read more

As a former student of GLAA I feel obligated to warn any parent or student who is looking to go to this self proclaimed institution who is undeserving of the name 'school'. Starting off I would like to mention the so called family environment that the staff and office so fondly cherish bragging about. It's nonexistent. Unless, of course, your definition of a family is a non-loving, favorite picking, backstabbing, snaking, group of people that hate each other. If that is a family to you then yes, GLAA is a family. I went to GLAA for the family atmosphere and was sorely let down. The dean picked and chose favorites who in the end were given special privaleges. I, unfortunately, didn't get on the dean's good side. Next I want to point out the violation of basic rights that I experienced or saw happen. Picture this, your having a bad day, you just failed a test, not too bad but it's disappointing. You proceed through your day and get a call in the middle of it that a close friend just died, now your day is pretty bad. As you go through the day a huge amount of homework is dumped on you not helping the situation whatsoever. You go through your day and school gets out. You call the girls dorm to go out on faculty drive with a girl you like and as you start walking out the dean calls you into the office to let you know that you can't leave the dorm because they think your not fit to be walking with a girl even though you do it almost every day. So you go to your friends room to hang out only to be sent to your own room by the dean because you failed a test. Now your having a really really bad day. This happened to me. It was so bad and I had already been struggling with other things that I was feeling suicidal that night. So I decided to go call my mom. Now here's the thing, you have to ask the dean for permission to call your parents during study hall. So picture me, a guy who's claim to fame in elementary school was never being seen cry even when I broke my foot, walking down the dorm hallway with tears streaming down my face walking into the dean's office to ask to call my parents because I'm having a bad day. What would you say if you were the dean? YES, of course you can call your mom. Well no, the dean decided that I shouldn't be allowed to call my parents. I went ahead and called them anyways only to have the dean get mad at me and send me to my room. As far as I know I am legally allowed to call my parents when everyone else is allowed to as well. Surprisingly that isn't the worst I have seen. I don't plan to go into detail but all I have to say is that I knew at least 7 people who were all suicidal due to the environment at the school. As far as I know thats not normal. Since last year hordes of students have either left school or just didn't reapply to GLAA. So that's my rant. Don't go to GLAA. Don't send your kid to GLAA. And if you do, you'd better bribe the staff into liking your child or else you are going to regret it. GLAA should stand for: G - Fucking L - Communist A - Arian A - Association Also did I mention it's racist? read more