I want to complete the RN to BSN program in 1 term

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I will be starting the program soon. I wonder if I could request a certain type of student mentor after I get accepted? Like tell the enrollment counselor that I want to finish in one term and want a mentor who will guide me through that. Any advice I would appreciate! Thank you.

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This includes featherzRN - she graduated a few years ago. Take her with a grain of salt :)

This is true!!! :) :) However, I did do an MBA at WGU less than a year ago and was lucky enough to have an acceleration friendly mentor.. I still do see one termers but you are right, they are less often these days.. I think it's definitely just the nursing program as I regularly see people in the IT program knocking out 100CU a term (yikes!!)..

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I started in October 2015 with only 12 classes to do. I was planning on doing one term too. Haha haha! My mentor wouldn't open up my next class until the date it was suppose to. I got 4 classes completed in 6 months. I got a new mentor a few days ago and I am hoping she doesn't do the same stunt. They will not open up more than one class at a time now. And I was not allowed to pick the order of classes either. I hope to finish this term, otherwise I would have went to UTA.

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I graduated in January. And I took one term. I think it really depends on your mentor. My mentor opened any thing I asked and did not have me pass the pa's by over 10 points. She just opened them when I said I was ready. If your mentor is holding you back. Switch.

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That is actually not true that you can only open one class at a time.

I have both Biochem and Humanities opened.

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I just started June 1st and have ALL my nursing classes opened (all 10 of them). I perused the first 3 (study guides, read course chatter... etc) to see which ones I wanted to start off with. My mentor is great and does not hold me back one bit. My mentor even approved my OA for a class I am no where near ready to test, but knows I may want to do it this weekend and doesn't want me waiting on their behalf. You need to build trust with your mentor and if they can determine you know what you're doing and have a good handle on things, hopefully they will be encouraging.

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I graduated in January. And I took one term. I think it really depends on your mentor. My mentor opened any thing I asked and did not have me pass the pa's by over 10 points. She just opened them when I said I was ready. If your mentor is holding you back. Switch.

My mentor said the same thing..if my PA was 10 points over the cut grade, I was advised to just go ahead and take the OA. I think we're just so accustomed to trying to get THE BEST grade we can, but their theory is to just PASS the class and move on. Which is totally understandable!

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My mentor said the same thing..if my PA was 10 points over the cut grade, I was advised to just go ahead and take the OA. I think we're just so accustomed to trying to get THE BEST grade we can, but their theory is to just PASS the class and move on. Which is totally understandable!

I did not have to pass the pa's by more than 10 points. In fact I did not even pass the pa for stats. Just pass and move on. We all get Bs.

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I started the RN to BSN program at WGU on November 1, 2015, and I will be done by July 1, 2016. I wanted to be done in 6 months, but classes have been changing a lot lately and they are now harder to pass so it slowed me down a bit. Still, I can't complain about being done in 8 months instead of 6. My student mentor was great, he always opened classes as soon as I was ready and would even call me when I was taking longer than usual on a class to make sure I was okay because he was used to me emailing him almost daily to open the next class.

You do have access to all the course work from day one so you can always work ahead in any class, you just won't be able to submit anything until your student mentor actually enrolls you in the class. While I was waiting in the queue for a grade in one class, I would start on the next one.

Overall, my experience has been good. I have had quite a few frustrations with the courses changing and being made harder and several things that seemed very repetitive, but that's no different than any other school and there isn't anywhere else this affordable that I can do all online at my own pace, so I take the good and the bad. I will have my BSN in the next 3 weeks and it will all be worth it anyway.

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Hi, how were you able to finish in 3 months? I will be starting WGU at the end of the year and I would love to finish sooner then later. Please share your tips???

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This may be a dumb question but I can't think of it; what does "PA" and "OA" stand for?

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This may be a dumb question but I can't think of it; what does "PA" and "OA" stand for?

PA = performance assessment. It could be anything from an essay, paper, PowerPoint presentation, or capstone project.

OA = objective assessment. These consist of proctored, multiple choice examinations.

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