Is WGU hard ??

[Zee28]

Hello! So just a little back story about my schooling history. I spent my child moving back and fourth from the states to my mother's home land and I never got to attend highschool and my last middle school class was 8th grade. I was wondering if WGU is hard and if it's possible to get it within a year.  Or do you have to be really smart. I seen a few others but I can't tell which online college is the easiest for someone like me. I have a 1 year old now and I'm trying to get a degree so I can't get out of a terrible situation and have my own place and stuff.

[ss20ts]

There have been people who have complete their bachelor's from WGU in a year or less, but they have a great deal of experience in that field. No one should expect to complete a 4 year degree in 1 year unless they have a great deal of experience that can be applied to their program. It's not a smart or not smart thing. It really relates to experience. How are your college writing skills? How are your test taking skills? It sounds like you quit school in 8th grade maybe? Do you have your GED?

[bjcheung77]

@Zee28, Welcome to the board, it's really going to be hard to say as each person has their learning preferences and study habits are drastically different from person to person... You can start by taking all the alternative credit that will transfer into the degree/school of your choice by following the WIKI guides/degree plans. You really want to fill us in with more details by following the template and addendum here: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Area-works

[Zee28]

@bjcheung77 okay will do thank you!

[LevelUP]

You can do WGU in 1 year if you can gather up max credits to transfer in 6 months, then do 1 WGU term.

Starting WGU from scratch isn't recommended.

[rachel83az]

Are you in the US now? If you're abroad, you can't attend WGU at all.

[Zee28]

@LevelUP I've been doing alot of reading so my thoughts were that I can use Sophia.com and try to get and many credits as I can and transfer than start.

@rachel83az I am currently in michigan. I actually came back in 2012 and I got my ged because I had so much missing credits they said I would need like 5 years to graduate highschool. I did also do some beginning college classes as well.

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There have been people who have complete their bachelor's from WGU in a year or less, but they have a great deal of experience in that field. No one should expect to complete a 4 year degree in 1 year unless they have a great deal of experience that can be applied to their program. It's not a smart or not smart thing. It really relates to experience. How are your college writing skills? How are your test taking skills? It sounds like you quit school in 8th grade maybe? Do you have your GED?

Ohh okay that makes sense. Also I didn't get to attend highschool. It was either 7th or 8th grade that was my last year in grade school but in 2012 I attended some GED practice and did the test. I failed the first time and passed the second time with average scores.

[MNomadic]

Your best bet is to identify what degree/s you're interested in, make a post following the template like bjcheung77 recommended and then get together a plan starting out with cheap/free alt credits and see how you're doing with those. If you're consistently passing alt credits at a good pace then you have a good chance at passing WGU courses at a good pace. WGU basically consists of objective assessments(OAs) and Performance assessments(PAs) which are proctored exams and projects(usually papers), respectively. If you can generate passable papers within a few days to a week and study for and pass proctored exams within a few weeks then you have a good chance at completing WGU in a term or 2. But going in blind without knowing how you perform at self guided online learning is never recommended and it would be impossible to estimate your time to finish. Keep in mind that while fast completions are certainly possible at WGU, those are outliers and most people take a few years to graduate(they just don't post as many attention grabbing videos/articles about graduating WGU at a normal/average pace). Depending on what degree you want, your budget, and your learning style, some of the other colleges might be a better fit for you.

[Zee28]

Your best bet is to identify what degree/s you're interested in, make a post following the template like bjcheung77 recommended and then get together a plan starting out with cheap/free alt credits and see how you're doing with those. If you're consistently passing alt credits at a good pace then you have a good chance at passing WGU courses at a good pace. WGU basically consists of objective assessments(OAs) and Performance assessments(PAs) which are proctored exams  and projects(usually papers), respectively. If you can generate passable papers within a few days to a week and study for and pass proctored exams within a few weeks then you have a good chance at completing WGU in a term or 2. But going in blind without knowing how you perform at self guided online learning is never recommended and it would be impossible to estimate your time to finish. Keep in mind that while fast completions are certainly possible at WGU, those are outliers and most people take a few years to graduate(they just don't post as many attention grabbing videos/articles about graduating WGU at a normal/average pace). Depending on what degree you want, your budget, and your learning style, some of the other colleges might be a better fit for you.

Thank you so much so I just got the template together and from my understanding I should make like a seperate post which I will do now.im looking forward to everyone's help!