In high school, Saira Talut kept busy. She was a member of the model United Nations club and worked-part time at a fast food restaurant, all while keeping up an overall grade average in the 90s.
But she worried this wouldn’t guarantee her admission to competitive business and humanities programs at McMaster and Western University. So she turned to an independent private school in Scarborough, Ont., paying $500 for a Grade 12 calculus course at A+ Academy of Advancement.
The now third-year Western University student says the course offered smaller class sizes, flexible study time and opportunities for one-on-one support from instructors.
She ended
