TESU or WGU? Advice needed, Ground 0, want to be as realistic as possible!

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Now, it's your turn to answer questions just because we love answering yours, it's best to have more info for us to get a bigger picture. I assume you've not read a few of my threads yet in regards to TESU and the Pell Grant/Residency Waiver. Anyways, I only have one simple question - do you have workplace tuition reimbursement? Are you working and is that position part of a union? Which state are you in?

I'm located in Arizona and I'm not working at the moment. Yes I have read both of your threads regarding Residency Waiver vs Taking courses at WGU and Options for 16 Credits to Rid of Residency Waiver Fee, I have been lurking this site for many hours but forgive me a lot of this information is going over my head as I have not done any of this before. I even printed them out so I could go back to it when I start understanding the process of things. I haven't even started looking into grant/scholarships yet. I don't even know basic things like if grant/scholarships cover any of say study.com courses or the residential waiver...stuff I gotta look into still. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong but I figure I should settle on which school to go to first before going into the details? TESU sounds good but then I was thinking what if I could finish WGU in 1 term after transferring the maximum amount of credit I could save thousands...but then I don't know myself enough to know if I could finish in 1 term. But then reading your post about pell grants, seems like TESU could end up to be <$3k but then I have to enroll in 3 terms? But then I'm not sure if I'm eligible for Pell Grants...and do I have to do 3 terms or can I finish sooner if I could? Sorry for this wall of text, it's not that I didn't want to read/research, it's just I'm trying to process a lot of these foreign concepts and having a bit of a hard time.

Edit: Ok, after reading your Pell Grant thread for the 3rd time, I'm starting to get it. So basically if I qualify for Pell Grants, it would be $3k for 9 months at TESU (seems like the study.com discount is no longer available) vs $3.3k for 6 months at WGU. So in essence would it be a no brainer to go with TESU...around the same price but safer choice just in case I don't finish within 6 months at WGU? Can I do 9 credits per term / 2 terms at TESU to further reduce the time needed to graduate?

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Not the only reason. It was a consideration, with 90-something Sophia credits to my name, but it wasn't the only reason. As I mentioned in another thread, WGU wants to call you regularly. That's just not for me. I also don't want to deal with any more live proctors than strictly necessary. I don't mind Study.com's proctors but I hate live proctors. $3k every 6 months is just a no-go, especially with the whole pandemic situation. Things have been chaos over the past year and I can't imagine trying to cram all that study and all of those exams into just 6 months. Yikes.

Finally, I'm currently not even located in the US. So, even if I wanted to, WGU wouldn't work for me.

Thank you for your insight! That's kinda what i need to hear, like how realistic it is to finish in 6 months, and the general experience with each school. Looks like TESU it is!