MAOL admissions after finishing YourPace undergrad

[Junco]

Just a heads up for anyone who might be interested in the MAOL. I am finishing my BA via YourPace and will wrap up next week, in mid-November (Fall session 2). I went ahead and applied to the MAOL in anticipation of a January, spring session 1 start date and received this message: "Unfortunately, YourPace undergraduate students who would like to pursue a graduate degree in the YourPace modality cannot do so consecutively. Students who are working towards their undergraduate degree at UMPI must wait at least one session before enrolling in our graduate degree program. Therefore, you are not eligible for the MAOL graduate program until Spring Session 2." Spring session 2 starts in March! This feels like a total bummer as I now have to wait FOUR MONTHS to start the MAOL. Any thoughts on how to get around this? I don't understand why they have this requirement. 

[Imbanewbie]

Just a heads up for anyone who might be interested in the MAOL. I am finishing my BA via YourPace and will wrap up next week, in mid-November (Fall session 2). I went ahead and applied to the MAOL in anticipation of a January, spring session 1 start date and received this message: "Unfortunately, YourPace undergraduate students who would like to pursue a graduate degree in the YourPace modality cannot do so consecutively. Students who are working towards their undergraduate degree at UMPI must wait at least one session before enrolling in our graduate degree program. Therefore, you are not eligible for the MAOL graduate program until Spring Session 2." Spring session 2 starts in March! This feels like a total bummer as I now have to wait FOUR MONTHS to start the MAOL. Any thoughts on how to get around this? I don't understand why they have this requirement. 

If you do not want to wait for four months,  you can take a look wgu master in management and leadership. I heard you can complete within one term.

[bjcheung77]

That's right, you can always go the WGU route for about $5K... Having said that, if you've got the 3-4 classes from undergrad that goes towards the MAOL, then you should be able to complete those 9 classes in 2 sessions, that's going to be $4300... Decisions, you need to decide for yourself which option is better for you.

[ss20ts]

You have to graduate with your bachelor's degree. That's why you can't just roll over into the MAOL.

About WGU, you'll still need your bachelor's degree to confer before WGU will fully accept you and then you can only start on the 1st of the month and everything must be submitted to them and processed the month before. So you really may be waiting 4 months or longer to start WGU too. It took WGU over 3 months to process my master's application earlier this year. They are NOT speedy at all.

[natshar]

Its because of degree conferrals and just the way things work.

I don't know how you'd be able to start ANY masters program right away, you'd have wait for degree conferral have them process your app and then wait to get started and depending on when the program start dates align it could be a second. Even March with all the classes you already have done from undergrad will be speedy to finish. When its in all said and done you will almost certainly finish your masters from start to finish in under two years (the standard for masters degrees). You might just have to suck it up and wait.

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Yeah WGU is very strict for their Masters you have to have a CONFERRED Bachelors to start their graduate program. They need undergrad transcripts which say "completed degree" on it. They only start the 1st of the month so this has to be processed and validated before the 1st of the month you want to start. I got Bachelors in May from B&M Uni (degree conferred around May 6th or something) and I was trying to start August 1st and the WGU workers said even that was pushing it. I did enroll in the Masters program, but dropped out three days in because I realized I didn't need a masters and got all my money back (zero courses completed). But the point is WGU takes awhile and even in my situation it A LOT of bugging them and my Undergrad for transcripts to make it happen.

[bjcheung77]

Yeah, I would really decide what you want to do, there are institutions that allow for conditional acceptance, like the HAU MBA for $3K, but you're going to take a long 15 month MBA vs completing the CBE options at UMPI or WGU, etc. Again, it really depends on the student, if I was in your shoes, just wait for UMPI and get some Coursera/EDX or other cheap/freebies under your belt to make a better mix trifecta of certs, degree, experience...

[Junco]

Thanks so much, everyone. I'm just going to wait it out, I think. I have really liked UMPI a lot and want to stick with the MAOL program. I'm on a roll and don't want to lose that momentum, so I'll go ahead and keep plugging away at some additional BUS classes so I can get the transfer credits.

As always, this is truly the best group out there. You're all such a great source of support.