Bad Bad Vibes from WGU (and an Intro of sorts)

[Merlin]

Hard to compare these colleges with such different end results? 
 
WGU's graduation rate is only 14 percent after SIX years.
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2017/04/18/senators-want-money-online-school-low-grad-rate/100561456/
 
Four-year graduation rate of students attending Ivy League schools in the U.S. as of 2018 is 84-89% in only FOUR years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/941954/ivy-league-four-year-graduation-rate/

"You may have seen graduation rates reported for WGU, including a rate on the College Scorecard of under 20%. That’s because the College Scorecard uses Department of Education data that only counts first-time, full-time students."

https://www.wgu.edu/about/students-gradu...rates.html

Side note:  To the OP, I came into WGU with 67 CUs and finished the other 55 in less than 4 months.  They're not obliged to take any of your credits (I easily "lost" 70+ credits due to their age).  I used the transfer guidelines and bashed out what I could (the 67), then enrolled.  It was fairly painless, and I didn't come in with tens of thousands of debt, nor did I leave with it.

https://partners.wgu.edu/transferguidelines

I was about to post the same thing.

To be clear, WGU's 6 year undergrad program graduation rates were 50% in 2018 and 65% for graduate programs in 2018.

Additionally, to go back to the OP's initial point...

The main benefit from taking courses from a place like Saylor is to save money, not time. Saylor's courses are fairly terrible, IMO. Straighterline and Study.com courses are better designed, though a bit more expensive. They can also be completed more quickly, in general. However, a person can complete courses via WGU at about the same pace as they can with SL or SDC, so unless you know you're going to need more than one or two terms to complete the balance of courses you need to graduate, then it doesn't matter whether you take courses via third-party providers like Saylor before enrolling at WGU or not. The time and money will roughly balance out, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a less expensive option for a degree at either the undergrad or graduate level.

As for the enrollment person pressuring you to sign up, that is their job. They all do that, if they didn't they'd be fired. I believe that they are not legally allowed to earn a commission, but they do probably have a quota. I don't see WGU as being any more or less predatory than any other college.