01-08-2019, 12:26 PM
(01-07-2019, 12:30 PM)ztkerls Wrote: 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
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.
34 CUs in 1 month is impressive - Go mom! I'd be interested in hearing about the courses she completed and a bit about the course format. Feel free to pm me if you prefer. I don't want details. Just how she found the content was delivered, comprehensible and whether she was graded on projects, quizzes or tests?
I imagine all of WGU is the same though I have no proof of that. I'm unsure of the reasons they branch out into multiple states, other than having a presence in that particular state, perhaps for state approval?
Thank you for the additional websites. We had stumbled on reddit's WGU group but I didn't know about the others. I'll definitely share those sites with John.
Robin
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Member since 2008
~ Slowly collecting credits from a variety of sources. Almost finished with my baccalaureate degree.