To take at local community college or when I'm at WGU?

How expensive is your CC if it costs 2500 for 3 classes?! That's insane!! If you're good at online learning, check out straighterline. WGU suggests them and it's "subscription" style classes so the quicker you finish, the less you pay but there is a base price. I think WGU wants you to take them prior to admission so there's less in your degree plan. Technically, you could accelerate and it wouldn't matter in the long run in terms of time and price but I don't think they want to add them to your plate if possible just in case you don't accelerate through them.

Damn. Now I feel spoiled for my $46/unit classes without financial aid(I'm in CA). $250/credit sounds like a university, not a community college. Sooooo It's just classes you COULD get out of the way prior to enrollment. It honestly might be more cost efficient to take them with WGU. They're pretty general Ed classes so you could potentially knock them out in a week each during a term depending on how motivated you are. I suggest straighterline or asking your enrollment counselor how realistic it would be to add them onto a normal term of classes(as if you had taken the classes, if that makes any sense at all).

I would definitely just take these at WGU because, as TheCommuter and EmReeCPT said, no additional fees and they're not going to take long for the motivated student. $250 per credit for 100/200-level courses at a community college is a little steep.

Another option is CLEP or DANTES/DSST exams if you think you already know the material or can cram it pretty well. DSST "Ethics in America" should give you 3 credits in Humanities if you don't already have an ethics class on your transcript. The general CLEP Humanities exam is also worth 3 credits, but it's a pretty broad exam and may be more challenging.

CLEP and DSST exams can be taken at your local college (even if you're not a student) and range from $50-80, depending on the college's fees on top of the exam fee.

For statistics, I would check out ALEKS. They have self-paced math courses that are ACE-approved, including one for statistics. If I recall correctly, it costs about $20/month and you can complete as many courses each month as time allows. At the end, you'll get those courses sent to ACE (acenet.edu) and will then have to pay I believe $15 for an ACE transcript to be sent to WGU.

WGU will accept many ACE-approved courses as well as CLEP/DSST. WGU provides a list of some alternative credit sources here -- Alternative Sources for Transferable Courses -- but the list is not inclusive of all alternative credit sources.

A word on the ACE transcript if you go that route: complete all of your planned ACE-approved courses before you submit the transcript. Just like a college transcript, if you add more courses after the transcript is sent, you'll have to pay for a new one with the new courses.

Take it through WGU or somewhere similar. One thing I think is not really written much about all the money saved by going to school online. - I can not believe how much time and energy I am saving (at WGU) in terms of NOT having to deal with parking and waiting in lines. With WGU, you don't have to worry about your car getting broken in or if you love/hate your professor and then the professor QUITS (this happened to me TWICE at university and community college). With WGU, you set your own schedule... Seems, too, like it really trains you to be the best, most organized student that you can be. Best of luck

Seems, too, like it really trains you to be the best, most organized student that you can be. Best of luck

Just playing devil's advocate here -- and speaking as a twice-over WGU grad -- WGU actually does not do a great job of teaching students how to be organized or how to manage their time. They do have resources for these things, but it's not built into the coursework. I would caution those who don't have excellent time management and organization skills against going into any self-paced program.