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Hi all,

Someone here mentioned on a post I made a few months ago . I had not looked into them at all at that time, but I did upon there mention. WGU sound like a great school for someone who is going back to school for a 2nd degree and has a family as I do, as they don't have traditional classes you have to attend a given hrs like a traditional school does. My question, however, lies in the fact that they do not give a GPA. They base their classes on a pass/fail competency rating. To pass they say that you have done at least B (3.0) work or above . I know that I will likely go on and get an advanced degree in nursing later on. I am trying to figure out if this will severely hinder my ability to be accepted into an advanced nursing program later in time.

Has anyone here gotten a degree with WGU and then gone on or know anyone who has? Has anyone had issues with this? I'll probably either go for a NP or a CRNA program --Westminster has the only CRNA program, I believe, in the UT area...any thoughts on how the lack of a GPA with WGU will factor into an application there? I have an email out to Westminster to see what they have to say, but any thoughts or ideas from anyone who has a degree with WGU and has actually applied (to Westminster or elsewhere) for an advanced degree would be really helpful.

WGU sounds like it would be a good fit for me, but I don't want to go to a school, get a degree, and then not be able to continued on with more education just because they don't grade with the typical 4.0 grading scale.

Thanks for any thoughts or help you can give.

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Yeah he gave me all the deadlines for the hospitals. I Chose the October cohort at Cedar Sinai. The app deadline is July 1st.

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Fine thank you. I am just waiting for my result from the test. My counselor said that I needed everything before April 1. I also need to send in my fin aid information. Did you counselor give you a deadline too?

Honestly I doubt you'd even get in. I wouldnt wait on the results and waste your time.

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Specializes in hospice.
Honestly I doubt you'd even get in. I wouldnt wait on the results and waste your time.

What excuse could you possibly have for this nastiness?

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Specializes in PACU.
What excuse could you possibly have for this nastiness?

Probably residual anger from her last thread where people weren't justifying her letting her godparents go into $132k in debt for her to go to West Coast University.

That comment was ridiculously uncalled for!

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Honestly I doubt you'd even get in. I wouldnt wait on the results and waste your time.

:nono: I really don't need that type of negativity. I don't even know you, what gives?

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Your distaste for WGU is well-known. My WGU degrees have served me well.

As I have said in the past at https://allnurses.com/western-governors-university/rn-msn-at-931890.html,

I am perfectly willing to stipulate that there may be serious, thoughtful people in these programs who are more careful in their methods, and hasten to add that these criticisms apply to any program that accepts opinion polling of anonymous subjects as evidence for operational changes in anything.

I am sure that I could count my colleague meanmaryjean among them. As always, I am also perfectly willing to stand corrected if the standards to which I objected in their previous program have been remedied.

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