Penn Foster High School

After middle school and beginning high school, I began to suffer from a severe lack of confidence. My grades were bad and I would dread going to school. For a long time I had just given up on life and had counseling and took medication for depression. I was well passed the typical high school age bracket and worried that I would never really make anything of myself. This changed when I was told about Penn Foster High School and learned of its program. After I signed up I was relieved to see how easy it was to understand the curriculum and that I could go at my own pace. With a GPA of 3.58 I became a high school graduate on 5/27/2020. I was so happy that I cried and now I finally feel that I made my parents proud. Now I'm ready to get out there and take on the next challenge. Penn Foster High School gave me my confidence back. My only regret is that I didn't know about it after I finished middle school.

My boyfriend has been submitting his exams. Not helpful/or exams what to do not worded right and not properly explained either comes to exams especially towards the end of the program. Won't get a refund if fully paid but failed when under academic review that doesn't understand at all. He has submitted all of the work. Has an excellent GPA of 3.34. It's only one exam that we have left. We tried to talk to the professors but no luck. It's very annoying the whole process with them.

I canceled on March 23, 2020 because Penn Foster did not accept my official transcript. Another former online school I went to did accept my official transcript. My mother paid $75.00 for enrollment and $49.00 for the monthly payments. They have taken money out of her account and will not give it back. Penn Foster's cancellation policy states “if you cancel more than six days after enrolling but before submitting a completed Program assignment, you will receive a refund of all the monies paid to Penn Foster less the registration fee (the “Non-Refundable Registration Fee”);”.

I signed up for the HSD program because we are in a pandemic and I thought I could do something useful with my time. I ran through 2 programs in less than 2 days and realized it is more of a cheat program, not really educational. The registration said $1 registration fee and $50 towards my class, then whatever you could afford per month. After starting the program I realized it was going to be almost $2000 for an education that is free so I decided to cancel. It took me a few days to actually get through to a person and once I did they told me I had a balance of $250 that I had to pay. So $301 for absolutely nothing. Please use your local education programs. Don’t fall for their price gouging.

I am 98% done with my schooling. I am so close to graduating. But Penn Foster put my account under academic review. 1. What does academic review mean? 2. Am I still going to be able to graduate? 3. How do I get rid of the academic review?

Penn Foster is a great program. I actually graduated with my HSD in June 2009 and I went ahead to get a academic scholarship at Middle Georgia College and I played basketball also. I now have 4 degrees and 2 teacher certifications and I am the head national team coach in Hong Kong. I also have about 24 student athletes taking classes through Penn Foster. Everything has been going well so far. Penn Foster is what you make out of it. You have to really lock in and fully commit to a full year. Penn foster is also NCAA Cleared. I highly recommend Penn Foster to someone who needs one on one or someone who are just behind with credits and need a new start.

I received my Diploma in 2014, now it is 2019 and no community college will acigcept the diploma. Do you understand how frustrating that is? I went through the whole process of signing up for college and when I finally get to the financial aid part; they cannot find the high school. I spoke to at least 6 representatives, they all told me the same thing, "we are an accredited high school". Sorry to tell you, but that is not true. Why would a company offer a high school diploma if you can't use it? So now I have to take the GED all over again. What a waste of time.

Penn Foster was what I thought I wanted to do at first and it was good for a while, but I wanted to get back into public school so I would be able to be around my friends, play sports and get a diploma from an actual high school. So, as I would do in a normal high school, I tried to request my transcript, but they REFUSE to give it to me until I pay my balance in full which I do not have the money for. I need to get my transcript so I will be able to attend my old high school but Penn Foster refuses to allow me to do that. This is absolutely a scam and I would not and I definitely DO NOT recommend this to anyone!!

This school might look normal from the outside but once you get in, there is no going back into the death trap you've walked into! Most of the writing in the program isn't even written correctly! The examiners help you when you feel like it. I am doing this programming class that I have to do since I can't go back and choose another elective, I set up a call with the school to help me with my projects and guess what, they didn't show up! And a few months later with the same class, I did some LiveChat with a Instructor for the same reason, and instead of showing/helping me how to do the project with the schools' resources, he sent me to a different website that had NOTHING to do with the school; in the end that website didn't even help for nothing!

The communication at Penn Foster sucks. I signed up 2 days prior to my promise to pay and start date and was not able to access any classes or work. It just kept telling me I had to pay. My contact person never answered her phone and by the time I was able to speak with someone I was told I could not do a refund because I was 2 days out of the grace period, even though I started calling and had been calling 2 days prior to my promise to pay date. I was finally able to cancel this nightmare and had to go through my bank to stop my first payment and they are still telling me that I owe them $7 after keeping my $50 from when I applied. WOW... BE WARNED. DO NOT APPLY TO YOUR NIGHTMARE.