WGU transcript appeal

[ztkerls]

I do not think that they messed up on the evaluation for World History. According to the official transfer guidelines for that major, One physical science credit can be a history course. In the degree plan, Intro to Geography would be the class taken for this at WGU.

Here is a link to the guidelines: https://partners.wgu.edu/Pages/BSDMDA.aspx

Anthropology is usually considered to be a social science which also fits into only that one spot. I would appeal human/health dev and see what they say. I was told they rarely allow transfers for spreadsheets when my mom started with WGU so I doubt you would get that.

Ztkerls, thank you for the link.   That link and the link for transfer credits for the nursing program as well as some common sense and a bit of wishful thinking, is how my neighbor and I came up possible course equivalents for his current credits.

Thanks for your advice on the appeal as well.  I will certainly share it with my neighbor.  He's getting a bit frustrated b/c WGU does things so very differently from most other colleges.

I understand that completely. We went through very similar stuff with my mom. Basically what I was told is that they give the evaluators the information in the link for the respective major and tell them to go as close to what the transfer requirements as they can. They don't make a connection to a possible alternative. Only the appeals people will look at the possible alternatives to their requirements if you can justify it. Worse thing they can say to you is no so try to appeal as much as you can. Based on what I have seen though, MIS is the only course that I would expect to get through appeals. 

Like others have said above, some of these classes can be finished really fast. My mom finished Speadsheets in a day and finished 34 CUs in December when she started and she isn't usually an accelerator like some of us are. While the evaluation can be demoralizing, once you start passing classes, it is easy to get over. 

I have only dealt with WGU Texas and I don't know if the other branches or the generic WGU is different, but their evaluation process and results were very similar to the b&m universities that we also applied too(University of Houston, Texas A&M). From my experience, any transfer credit outside of the Big 3 is frustrating.  

I imagine you have been told this before, but if he decides to continue with WGU, the WGU reddit, WGU accelerators facebook page, and the course tips in WGU have been all the advice we have needed to study and pass the classes so far. They give a lot of great advice.