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August 2022 by Julian H.
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.
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July 2022 by Nathanael “Nathan” Nelson
I have never been to school here but I've heard so much about it. My mom went to this school and had a great experience at GLAA. I hope to be able to go to this school when I'm older. I have also been to their camp meeting. I've been going every year since I was 6 years old and I've loved it! GLAA is awesome!!
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March 2022 by Jessica Trubey
Your high school years are the most formative in your life; therefore, I’m so glad I attended this school where I met friends for life that were and still are good influences, had teachers and staff that treated me like family, and was given opportunities to grow spiritually.
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March 2022 by Rebecca Powers
Like any place there are ups and downs, it’s all what you make of it! I had some of the best experiences here and made some of the greatest friends! Wouldn’t change my decision about going there!
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March 2022 by Sophia DuHamel
0/10 literally got diagnosed with PTSD afterward. Stories upon stories of horrible, traumatic experiences. Reach out to me if you want details. I won’t be saying them here.If you’re Adventist, go somewhere else. If you’re not, turn around and run the other direction.
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February 2021 by D 3
This is a great school, but it’s not perfect. Much of the experience whether good or bad depends on how the student makes it. If you want to get the best experience in Bible training and college prep while having some solid friends, you can. However, if you want to hang out with the wrong crowd and blame the school as a failure, you can. Are there cliques, bullies, rich, and poor? Yes! However, the faculty and deans try to create the safest environment as possible. Offenders will get disciplined or expelled. Are there hiccups? Of course, but the school tries to take a Christ-centered approach in being redemptive as much as possible. The campus is well maintained and beautiful. The facilities are mostly up to date. I would highly recommend sending your child here. Is it pricy? Yes, but with all the scholarships and funding available you can send your child here for under $200 a month. Their eternity is worth much more than that. Send them :)
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June 2020 by That random Glaa kid
My experience at GLAA has been some of the best memories I've ever made. The school provides good quality education. In middle school I always had only 1A couple of B's and C's but this year I have made it with all A's and 1 B. Alot of comments talk about favoritism and I believe there is a huge misconseption here. There is no doubt that the school is very religious and because of this the school is very close to many people throughout the church. Due to this many staff have watched countless kids in the community grow up either at Cedar lake or even camp meeting. This means that staff just know some kids better than others. Lots of kids get good jobs because they have seen a good work ethic in students as they have grown. Due to this some kids get better jobs. It is definitely possible to get good jobs and get in the photos and yearbook photos as a kid from places distant from GLAA. However this comes at a fair cost. If you fool around and don't work hard, staff see that. If you don't throw yourself out there them you aren't in photos. The entire GLAA experience is really what you make of it. This goes for chosing friends as well. MANY of the students are great people and are some of my closest friends, but not everyone is an angel. If you are around bad people this will be reflected on you. Overall would recommend this school to any parent asking where to send there child. This is the best environment I can see for any child to bring them out of highschool.
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February 2020 by shamus smith
Easier to list the positives of this school than the negatives. Positives..............My response to their "comment"......I have had children there. Have interacted with many of the staff, been to many of the functions on campus and off. Seems the school also lacks the ability to do research on who they are commenting to.
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November 2019 by Andy.c2004
My husband and I couldn't be happier with the experience our son is having at GLAA in all aspects - spiritually, academically and socially. We were nervous for our son to be away from home, but the staff are all so caring, kind, redemptive and loving that it is truly like family. I felt nothing but genuine caring and God's love from the moment I set foot on the campus. Our son absolutely loves it there and is having a wonderful experience - better than we could have ever hoped for.
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November 2019 by Kristyn Frye
From an alumni who attended all four years: do NOT send your children here. I have stories for days on how the majority (not all) of the teachers play favorites. The principal is full of pride and on a power trip. There are plenty of other SDA and boarding academies to send your kids to. Do not waste your time.
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November 2019 by christain conman
This school hasn't changed for 20+ years but the school changes the students. Every single time someone I know goes to GLAA they come back a disrespectful pompous fool. And academics aren't worth your time as well.
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November 2019 by Conman N.
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.
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November 2019 by Ryan W.
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 - F****** L - Communist A - Arian A - Association Also did I mention it's racist?
