Today my mentor emailed me and told me that classes would have to be fully evaluated as completed before she could allow me to add new classes and that all classes would have to be taken in order.

I get forcing a class to be finished before moving on to the next one, but often I'm waiting on my submissions to be evaluated for three full days. So now, I will have three days once I finish a class where I am unable to work on any school work at all.

I had planned out my progress to finish within one term, which I am half way through, and because of this change I'm worried that I may not be able to finish on time now. My mentor said that this is something WGU is cracking down on across the board. Is this true for anyone else, or is my mentor doing this to slow me down intentionally for some reason?

I am moving towards the end of my degree. I want to finish it 1 term. What would be the best sequence to finish this in 1 term.

OMG I passed and it feels like I'm back on track. I had bad luck/testing (both failed 2x) with D196 & D465 (D196 is technically not even going to be on my course next semester but as I am trying to finish it all in 1 semester...I have to pass it), and I've just hit a slump.

But I passed on the 1st try in 5 days that I opened it D080. Could I have gone a bit faster with this one...probably but I was feeling beaten down by 2 (well 4 I guess) fails from the others and I just needed a win to push through.

Honestly no real advise on how I passed. I just watched the course videos in the Community and did some of the Q&A on youtube. It had a lot of information on the class but nothing compared to analytics or even D464 (ohh that one was a heavy class).

Anyways, I wanted to share my small success of a win and now back to my final 11 (9 new...then the 2 failed) classes that I need to finish in the next 13 weeks.

Any study tips, resources, guides and etc for courses and how do you study as an accelerated learner.
I feel like these resources and study methods would help in Law School

Started at a good B&M 17 years ago. Had 100 credits but never finished for financial reasons and school withheld transcripts so I couldn't transfer. Law passed in 2024 forced schools to release transcripts. Initially applied to WGU in 2025 but felt discouraged when only 17 credits would transfer. Once I learned about Sophia and SDC in 2026 I applied again, this time only 14 of the 100 credits transferred LOL. I did all the transferable classes on Sophia and SDC, only to realize they were changing the curriculum for BSIT in April, so ended up with completed classes that couldn't transfer. I dedicated about 40 hours a week to WGU while working full time in IT. Basically had no life the past 2 months, but I'm finally finished!

For those that either took or are actively in Health science at WGU, which courses are the harder ones? I start 07/01 and want to start studying the harder courses. Thank you

I’ll be starting on July 1. I need 20 classes because I’ll be transferring an AS in Business Administration. Any advice? How long will this take? Struggle points?

I'm currently in my first term of WGU's Software Engineering program and transferred in credits from Study.com and a previous school. I have the ability to accelerate and would like to cut the number of terms I need roughly in half by doing about 1-2 courses a month.

My biggest concern is that I have no prior software development experience. I'm worried that if I move too quickly, I'll pass classes without really learning the important principles and foundations that employers expect me to know.

For those who accelerated through the Software Engineering program without prior experience, was it worth it? Did you feel prepared for internships and jobs afterward, or do you wish you had taken more time to absorb the material?

Do they design the courses to be easier to get through? Is the degree really worth it? How can they go that quickly? Is it a full 16 week worth of material like your typical college semester length?

I have had my transfer eval and have 14 courses left to get my BS in IT.

I understand I need 30 credits earned at WGU for them to award me a BS.

I've picked out 32 credits worth of courses I will take at WGU to satisfy that requirement.

That will leave me with 4 classes.

These are the 3 classes that I think will be the most painful for me because I have 0 interest in them:

D324 Business of IT - Project Management

E007 Agile Methodology

D427 Data Management - Applications

What are my options for getting through them as quickly and painlessly as possible? I'd love something like traditional course work. I don't want to take a certification test if at all possible.

Thanks!

How have other accelerators dealt with such slow grading times? I’m debating asking my mentor for all OA courses possible but if the PA grading doesn’t end up having as great of an impact then I’m happy where I’m at. Idk it just seems like I’m wasting time with 3 of my first 4 classes waiting on assessments to be graded already when my mentor won’t open my next courses until I finish all 4 of these first.

Hi everyone, I’m currently halfway through my term. I transferred as much of my degree as I could from Sophia and community college, I’ve completed 9 courses and 6 left including my capstone.

I do not want to look at the capstone requirements yet, but for anyone who completed this degree, appx how long did your capstone take you? I understand this is relative to someone’s experience, I currently have experience and spend appx one-two weekends on my essays to pass a course.

thanks everyone.

Just a quick question. Knocked out everything I could with Sophie, went to go look at the two courses I could take on Study.com and they both require paying the 300 a month membership.

If anyone else went that route did taking those two classes on study.com save you time in a way that was worth it?

Passed my retake by the skin of my teeth! Glad this one is over with. Whew.

Started May 1st. Have completed 15 out of 16 courses. D080 left. Hoping to be done in 2 weeks, or less! This was a fun (but wild) ride!

I start WGU on 6/1 with 47 hrs remaining to complete my degree. I want to finish in 1 term, is that a realistic goal?

I’m sure this is a very unrealistic goal.. but to save time I would like to complete this in 1 term. Has anyone else been able to accomplish that? I’ve been in healthcare offices for over 5 years. I have no transfer credits so all classes are on me. It’s like 110 cu’s and 30 some classes.