Damn this is so inspirational! Thank you for all of this info!Yup no lie lol. I had an associate degree at a county college. Transfered those credits to Thomas Edison State University. Then I had a sit-down with my advisor and told him I already knew about Study com and Sophia.org and asked him how many classes can I max out and he told me that I may not want to do it because of the $3000 fee. I'm like nah brah that fee doesn't mean shyt if I'm saving time down the line (promotion at work also). Advisor wasn't that helpful in telling me what were all the transferable courses so I had to do the leg work myself. Study and Sophia has there own page specific to TESU that shows what's transferable (found out they don't really update the page like that tho so be careful). I took my entire course list at TESU for my major and compared them to Sophia and Study to see what I can take and it legit came back to everything but 12 credits. I put an entire word doc together showing my advisor and he confirmed those courses were transferable . He emailed me back with the expiration date on those courses on Study and Sophia so I made sure I knocked those courses out based on those expiration dates in order. I made sure I had those completed courses transfered to TESU immediately to avoided any delay or technicality of them expiring.
When the time came for my graduation academic audit , the guy that audited me was extremely impressed. He said he never seen this shyt before in his life. I think he had to review it with people because my audit took forever to complete. My transcript is legit a 4.0 with the courses I took at TESU and the rest of the courses just show a credit transfer
. After he was done talking I asked him about the $3000 fee and be said nah your exempt from it because TESU works with my job with the reimbursement and they have a deal with certain fees can be waived. He told me he was 99% sure of it. Days later I got a hold on my account because I owed the $3000. I called them up and made a big stink about it saying I was told I didn't have to pay the fee anymore and I spent the money. They agreed to cut it down to I think it was $1500 or even less I don't recall. I paid it and went on my way. Eventually I got the green light then graduated in 2022 after sitting on my associate degree for 10 years. I decided to keep going and get my MBA which I'm in right now. I will tell you tho if your going for your masters, depending on where they will probably give you a hard time if you transfered that many credits to get your BS/BA because it shows on the transcript. I applied to one school for my masters and the enrollment person was questioning me about it
. Her quote was "so u baught a degree essentially....TESU made no money with you then?!?"" It was wildly disrespectful
I got accepted anyway but that didn't sit well with me. Luckily I always do my research and found that my job pays 100% of a specific school they work with in Colorado Technical University. When I found out I can get a free MBA through them directly, I pivoted over there. I Should be done before winter.
Right now I'm starting to dig into finding a way to get an affordable doctorate degree when I wrap up with the masters this year.
The info is out there folks, God bless the internet. I might put up a separate thread just so folks can be in the know on here
WGU lowered their requirements for their IT Bachelors programs
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Thanks! I was looking into a bootcamp, but I might have to check this out
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I'm a year away from my bachelor's in criminal justice to start on my law career. Can I use these credits towards that? I also want to get my MBA.
I'm in nursing right now (also doing my PGM certification) but my true calling is defense attorney
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$199 a monthIt depends on what school your in and if they will accept it from study.com and Sophia. What school do u go to?
I completed 2-3 courses in that 1 month. $199 is better then $1000s spent at a school. Not including saving 5 to 8 months saved.
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Repped! I have one last math class that I am *really* not interested in finishing (failed twice by 2 questions...they gave me so much fukking homework).
I emailed my mentor to see if I can get Sophia. If that works, im knocking that shyt out and seeing if there are any other courses easier on Sophia than WGU. Im almost done with my degree and every bit matters.
Edit: Actually found the list of partnered classes. I already did most of them for my degree and don't think the remaining ones will be any simpler than the WGU courses. Knocking out the math course on the cheap without a proctor would be more than enough. fukk I need a math class for
I'm in my damn career.
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Me being terrible at math discouraged me forever. Tried to find a major when I was young that had the lowest amount of math courses because I know that's the only subject holding me back. This Sophia and Study stuff did wonders for me. For Study if you get the best score possible on the quizzes through out the course then proctored exam doesn't count for much at the end because you accumulated enough points to bomb on the final and still pass. I did a couple of math courses on that not to bad. Sophia is cool because I just used a math apps to solve all my questionsRepped! I have one last math class that I am *really* not interested in finishing (failed twice by 2 questions...they gave me so much fukking homework).
I emailed my mentor to see if I can get Sophia. If that works, im knocking that shyt out and seeing if there are any other courses easier on Sophia than WGU. Im almost done with my degree and every bit matters.
Edit: Actually found the list of partnered classes. I already did most of them for my degree and don't think the remaining ones will be any simpler than the WGU courses. Knocking out the math course on the cheap without a proctor would be more than enough. fukk I need a math class for
. Download Mathway app and Photomath app and it takes care of probably 80%. Photomath is dope because you just have to take a pix of the equation and it will solve it for you 
. I have an Android but I'm sure Apple has alternatives.Dropping more gems so ask away folks.
I believe it was Database management on Study. I think honestly it was me because I was doing that course during the toughest time of the year at work. Study does animation videos in their course lessons so Its easier to learn then just reading a book but I had a lot of stuff on my plate during that time. Everything else was kind of a breeze.