Should I earn credits at Sophia Learning before UMPI even with a PELL grant?

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Do you know if I can do both simultaneously? As in not pushing back my UMPI start date and work in Sophia if there is downtime waiting for papers to be graded/milestone approval.

You can do both Sophia and UMPI, but it's not advisable. As you can have 2 courses open on UMPI so you can keep going while waiting for Milestones to be affirmed and the Rough Draft returned. There isn't much down time when you have 2 or 3 classes open. It's easier to get everything done on Sophia. Once you're enrolled at UMPI, you need written permission from your academic advisor to transfer in additional courses. They have generally given approval in the past, but that could change. You would also be taking time away from your UMPI classes. Doing both at the same time will most likely slow you down.

This really helps. I was concerned about wasting time deferring by one session because I only need 8 courses at Sophia. I am very motivated to complete the program quickly, but also don't want to risk the Sophia courses not transferring in later, or for my GPA to suffer.  My other concern was needing to wait days, or over the weekend on milestones/grading/adding the next class. I am not working and am free to dedicate 35-40+ hours a week to school like a full-time job, so I'm trying to plan accordingly to be as efficient as possible.


I really appreciate it, thank you!

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Yes, you can work on both simultaneously, but I still wouldn't recommend that route, even if you have no commitments and can cram all you can...It all depends on you...It's like paying for two subscriptions of service and you won't get your money's worth.  I would again finish all you can with Sophia.org and then complete the rest with UMPI in the next session.

Thank you, this really helps alot!