Questions regarding WGU and other issues.

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Plenty of schools accept WGU degrees and students without issue. GPA is often one of the least significant factors in grad school acceptance. They will look at your overall application package. But references and your statement of purpose are generally weighted much higher than GPA or even GMAT/GRE/LSAT scores when considering good candidates for grad school (particularly so for doctoral studies).

That said, here is a list of schools that have accepted students from WGU into their graduate or doctorate programs...

https://www.wgu.edu/alumni/career-suppor...paths.html

That list isn't definitive since not every student reports their college admissions status to WGU, but it's a good place to start if you're curious.

FYI -- if you have under 60 hours of graded credit (such as all of your credit hours come from WGU or other pass/fail school) then LSAC will report no GPA for you. So even if you go to a school like TESU and get an A in your two required courses and have a 4.0 on those, with transferred ACE credit for everything else, they will not consider your 4.0

LSAT is a huge part of the picture, but for competitive law schools you should absolutely ensure at least 60 graded hours.

I can see that for ACE courses transferred into WGU, but for courses taken at WGU they may honor the 3.0 equivalency that is recommended on the transcript. I have yet to hear about any school that doesn't recognize WGU credits as 3.0 equivalency for transfer GPA purposes. Of course, you still need 60+ credits from WGU to make that argument have value.

I have seen this issue raised by multiple angry/disappointed WGU students before - LSAC does not recognize it as a 3.0 because the transcript says "PASS."

While WGU says a pass is equivalent to "at least a 3.0," it does not provide letter grades and explicitly makes it clear they don't calculate a GPA. And LSAC's system only cared if you have a letter or numerical grade on your transcript (and will even count grades that show up with a line through them, as is the case for many schools who strike out grades after academic forgiveness as opposed to schools who actually remove them from the transcript).

Furthermore, if they do change their policy to make an exemption for WGU, a 3.0 isn't particularly competitive for law school. Better get that LSAT up!

Now would my WGU credits transfer anywhere else? I figure I can finish what I can at WGU and transfer those to another 4 year, and earn a GPA on the remaining courses.