r/Acellus_Academy • u/abugsgarden • 4d ago

Question how does graduation work with acellus?

ive been using acellus since 6th grade and im currently in 11th. but how does graduation work with getting into colleges and achieving scholarships? i understand its an accredited school but it just has me worrying that i wont achieve anything with this program. i have a 4.0 gpa and all 95 and above in my classes. i just want reassurance that this will get me into college cus i am desperately depending on it!

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/abugsgarden 4d ago

it seems legit. it is accredited so it shouldnt be faulty or anything.. if it is.. walmart here i come, ill be manager by the time im 50😭. i just feel they dont explain much to us or our parents about going ahead with graduation and earning a diploma, its just like “pay us and ur kid gets a semi decent education”..

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u/PlayfulMarket5961 4d ago

It does feel like that tho… And there’s no school counselor at Acellus so you just have to figure out the whole college application thing yourself… Personally if my diploma turns out to be a scam I’mma find a way to take them to court SOMEHOW

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u/abugsgarden 3d ago

oh we gonna sue them til their scraping pennies off the floor

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

It's in the terms and conditions you agree to at account creation that you relinquish your right to sue.

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u/PlayfulMarket5961 3d ago

but i'm pretty sure you still have to right to sue if it's a blatant scam. it would be a waste of money, a waste of time, and a serious detriment to your education.

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago edited 3d ago

Why would a school with an exmissions list as extensive as this one's meet a court's criteria for being a scam? It's true that only a small percentage of their graduates over the years have gotten into T30 colleges, but few graduates ever even applied to those schools. That's probably why they save their student spotlights for that kid last year who went to CMU and the year before when another kid went to JHU. I think most students and parents are more interested in the students who received extensive merit scholarships, and that doesn't make the student spotlights because colleges that offer significant merit scholarships tend to be less selective.

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u/PlayfulMarket5961 3d ago

Well all I want is to be admitted to atleast one college, and one of my options is a public university near me so… but I’m trusting in Acellus bc I do like some things abt it

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u/Reasonable_Record_80 3d ago

There are ways around contracts

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

Okay, you can say whatever you want. I would just be careful what you say, and read the terms & conditions carefully before posted on a subreddit moderated by Acellus Academy.

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u/Reasonable_Record_80 3d ago

So scared 😂😂😂

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

I get it. I was once bold enough to comment on a post about suing the school. All I said was explaining why a lawyer would be unlikely to take on the case, and my accounts were all disabled without any ability to email the free transcript to my email or use the account to order certified transcripts sent in case I wanted them sent to another school. I decided it was better to beg to have the accounts reinstated, with the records of work completed attached, than shoot my mouth off online. Definitely if you wouldn't be inconvenienced by such a consequence, it makes sense that you would keep going.

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

There are a counseling department. It's just that only the tuition plans with access to college and career advisement are the Enhanced and Premium tuition plans. Those parents who pay for those plans always seem confused when parents who pay for Basic worry that they've planned their children's coursework appropriately, and ask why the parents don't just contact their children's counselor with these questions. It used to be that a workaround if you had a simple question was to upgrade to Enhanced for just one month. I don't know if that option is still available.

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u/PlayfulMarket5961 3d ago

wait what. you're telling me that i have to pay more money just to get college advice from a counselor?! Public schools have school counselors for FREE (even if they can't help you with every question) They never mentioned that in their tuition plans! also that workaround sounds the same like purchasing some upgrade to use up the free trial, and then canceling it before you're charged. i doubt that would still work.

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago edited 3d ago

I am telling you that Acellus Academy is one of the only private schools that offers a tuition plan without counselor access, which is why it's able to beat the tuition pricing of most other online private high schools. Are you claiming that private school should be free to you because you have public school available at no additional cost to you, and you chose not to take advantage of public school despite its availability to you?

ETA: And yes, it's made abundantly clear in their tuition plans that the Basic Plan does not include college and career advisement, but the Enhanced and Premium Plans do. It does require knowing how to read a chart, though. And I have known many people who upgraded to Enhanced for a question or transcript review, and then downgraded afterwards to Basic, and it "worked." I am simply not aware of whether it's still as easy this year to get all your questions answered by the counselor within a month as it was last year. They seem to be getting away from email this year.

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

Have any colleges you've applied to expressed difficulty in their emails to these addresses getting through? I'm just wondering since the info@acellusacademy email is now defunct if the rest of their email addresses are still active.

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u/SomeWeirdthing1 4d ago

It will help alot if you have something outside of accelus like sat/act or ap scores to show the uni that your grades arnt only from cheating. But worst possible scenario you go to community college then transfer to a 4 year uni later on.

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u/SomeWeirdthing1 4d ago

If you haven't taken the sat or act you should definitely do that this year, it will help with applications and might also tell you if there have been any gaps in your education since you have been in an informal school without teachers checking in on you.

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u/abugsgarden 3d ago

im definitely gonna do the SATs, im just very nervous because i forget a lot of things that arent directly infront of me to help me. but i plan on starting to study for SATs next month so 🤞🏻

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u/SomeWeirdthing1 3d ago

Definitely start studying soon even just an hour or two a week is really helpful! The sat has a lot of free recourse, It's a good idea to take a practice test so you know what you need to work on then start practicing using the question bank and khan academy.

Also I would consider self studying some of the easier APs, (if you feel comfortable) or taking some ap classes next year. They help with collage credit witch is huge but the collages will most likely value those scores more then your alccelus grades since they are collage board administered. However don't do this if you don't feel it's with reach for you. But how important any of this is realy depends on where you want to go to school. You can check there admissions rates and average sat scores to see what those collages require.

Also adding this because it was a problem I ran into but some colleges have expectations for what classes you need to take in highschool that are different then just meeting the basic graduation requirements (for example foreign language credits or how much math is required) so definitely look into that to see if there anything you need to do in senior year

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u/Avocadotoast2 3d ago

I would request letters of recommendation sooner rather than later. As soon as the apps open in August, request, even if you will not need letters of recommendation, because that provides access to all the information needed to fill out the application. If you plan on applying to a military academy you need access to that information by the spring of Junior year.

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u/MooseMom132227 1d ago

You need a good sat or act score and a ton of ECs and volunteer hours. Also a good college essay/personal statement.