Bad Review for WGU: Dishonest, Incompetent, and Unreliable

[Merlin]

My advice, and my experience, says that if you're looking to transfer to WGU - don't.

While I think your issues with transferring credits to WGU fall well outside the norm, I can say with confidence that a lot of people have trouble with transfers. It is probably the #1 issue with college across the board regardless of what school you go to. Unfortunately, credit evaluation is a bit of an uncertain process and people often disagree with what the school awards vs. what they expect.

Transfer issues are why we suggest that students submit their transcripts to multiple schools and degree programs to see which one gives the most credits. We also suggest that everyone submit updated transcripts on a regular basis to make sure their courses continue to be evaluated as planned since these things can change at any time. That is harder to do with WGU, but it works well for the Big 3 schools.

Based on your story, TESU can be just as bad if not worse. Primarily because it happens all the time with them unless you work with people on the forum here who know how their system works well enough to provide evaluation guidance on what has worked in the past and speculate about what should work in the future. The same thing can be said about WGU though... we're starting to get enough people who've been through their system to develop a pretty good idea about will and will not work in terms of transfers... for certain degrees and from staple ACE credit providers like StraighterLine and Study.com at least. Outside of those narrow conditions, transfer planning is still a crapshoot though.

WGU is easily the 3rd most popular destination school on this forum (and close to being the 2nd). We've had others come to the board who were upset with WGU for one reason or another, but yours is probably one of the worst stories I've personally heard. Of course, you have to expect some horror stories from any school with 120,000 enrolled students. Had I gone through what you went through, I'd probably be salty about them as well.

That said, I know it is not the norm either. There are a ton of WGU students and alumni on this forum who successfully managed to transfer credits there. Of course, that may be because of the approaches people are taking on this forum and the advice of others who've provided guidance.

I'm actually considering going back to complete a BS CS at WGU.

Good luck with that.

Well, the way I'm looking at it, if WGU comes back with an evaluation that is too far outside of my expectations I'll just blow them off and go back to Coursera. If they come back with one or two courses that I know don't match prior evaluations, I might send an email asking for a review to confirm, but I'm not going to fight with them to meet my expectations. That is generally a losing proposition since ultimately it is their decision what will or will not meet their requirements. There are other schools if that one doesn't fit.

Of course, I already have a bachelor's and master's degree and I am preparing to start a Ph.D., so I'm in a bit of a different situation than most people who are looking to complete their first degree. For me, I don't need the degree, I want the knowledge. Getting a BSCS along the way would just be a fringe benefit of doing the work I already plan to do, with maybe a few extra courses I'd be interested in taking anyway.