PS. If you call Laurel Springs (click on the Gifted tab) and talk to the Gifted Admissions coordinator, you'll get a real, live person who counsels lots of families and (our experience) usually is pretty knowledgeable. One of the reasons we opted for LS over Stanford Online High School (although you should check this out, since our experience is now several years old) is that I could not get a live person on the phone at Stanford --everything was group emails. I don't mean to be hard on Stanford Online; they were expanding their program at the time, and when I finally did get a (very nice) counselor on the phone, she explained that they were having some growing pains. But the spirit of Laurel Springs just seemed warmer and more human. It's worth a lot to me to have a real human being on the other end of the phone, and there are enough repeat players that I feel I have a familiar person to turn to if I need something.
