BOG Associates from Pierpont (As of now 2019)

[dfrecore]

I completed the BOG program back in 2017.  I totally stumbled upon a reference about the program on this forum, and decided to pursue it.

I was one of the fortunate ones that already had everything completed at other institutions, and simply transferred everything over to Pierpont, and applied for graduation.  Diploma arrived in weeks.   Total cost was the cost of two transcript transfers.  Applied for the school in April, 2017 and graduated in June of 2017.  

My point in saying all of this is that I was HIGHLY suspect that the program might be forced to change, and NOT for the better.  I simply could not understand how they could award a degree without charging me a penny.  There had to be time and effort involved by their transcript evaluators, Ms. Parks, and others.  They had to pay for the diploma, packaging and mailing, etc.  At the time (2017), I remember a huge influx of people on this forum discovering the BOG program.  Pierpont was the most popular because of their academic residency requirements.  I remember telling my wife that I could not imagine that Pierpont could keep it up much longer without either adding a residency requirement or at least charging a fee.  I am wondering if we are not starting to see the end result of that.

I was one of the ones that opted for the WVNCC BOG AAS, and I will say, it was a pain to have to babysit the process, but there wasn't much to it on their end.  I sent my transcripts, the girl that I talked to wrote everything up on a sheet showing how everything came in, probably took her 20 minutes to do, I waited and waited and waited...but finally received my diploma AND transcript in the mail, maybe in August of 2017, with a graduation date of May.  It was strange, but I took it.  I'll be it didn't take them more than $20 worth of work to do everything for mine, that's just a guess, but I do transcript evals all the time, so I have a good idea of it.

Soon thereafter, they added a residency requirement, and that was the end of that.

I'm glad I went with WVNCC instead of Pierpont for sure.