WGU BS Computer Science

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Hi!

I've been lurking for several years working on a plan for a CS degree for my boyfriend. With Sophia being free, he was able to complete 6 classes and is now energized to keep going. I think I have a pretty solid plan in the excel sheet attached, I'd love to get some eyes on it to confirm everything is looking good. For reference, I did look at TESU before for him in 2017-2018 but it looked like more classes and less relevant. He has an Associates in Guitar Performance from Musician's Institute which is only nationally accredited so nothing is likely to be useful from that.

I also have a couple of questions. On the ACE credit registry change, has it been confirmed for WGU if they will accept the Acclaim transcript or not? I'm concerned whether I should have him apply now and try to send a transcript from ACE while they are still available, though he will not want to actually start at WGU for quite awhile. 

Also, I just saw the InstantCredit classes. It seems like American Government and Astronomy might be useful, but I'm not sure if American Government would transfer into WGU as American Politics and U.S. Constitution or not, as he already has the 'Intro to Geography' slot covered by Sophia Macroeconomics. Does anyone here know? It does look like the Straighterline American Government course works according to the WGU transfer pathways agreement, although Straighterline still only notes it for Intro to Geography.

Next up he was planning on trying out Saylor's Chemistry class. It sounds like the content is iffy there but I didn't see anything on that course specifically and the price can't be beat. Astronomy sounds like a good alternative but he's planning on doing the lab part at WGU since it's an easy class to knock out and he was thinking it might be easier to come up with an experiment if he does Chemistry instead. (I was thinking maybe something food chemistry related a la the Science of Cooking since we like to cook)