RUN! Don't waste your time and money! They are full of "wishy washy" actions going on and HORRIBLE communication. Anyone you talk to will have a different answer. I called and asked if my university could send my my transcripts via fax. Which mind you they say they can accept your transcripts electronically. I had 3 people tell me different ideas on what it "allowed" and "not allowed" for sending transcripts to WGU. Someone saying it is ok, and someone saying no. I recommend just sending them by mail with these people if you choose to attend here. You cant do electronically. I also had my assessments completed and failed the tests with them being unable to tell me what I exactly I failed. And my councilor told me EVERYONE fails at least the first time around. Which is a red flag, especially with someone having taken many General Education courses. I was told I'm required to wait 30 days to re-take the assessments and I have to re-take all of them. Mind you, this is is requirement for everyone applying, even if you have completed your English and Math courses from another colleges. I will not be attending this college. I have a decent GPA of 3.3 for college and I am not someone to be lazy with my courses and course work. I am not one to wait till the last minute. I'm concerned that if their communications skills are lacking now, then what will it be like once I'm fully enrolled and taking courses?!?!?! And from reading other reviews, yea I really know now this school is not for me. Don't believe all the 5 stars. I came across a review from someone who worked there stating :
"90% of these 5-star reviews are plants
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I am a WGU Mentor who put in my 2 weeks at WGU this week and in searching through this thread I am unable to verify most of these 5-star posts as being real students at Western Governors University. They are plants, except for "Christi Smith" who gave a raving review of Western Governors University 2 months before her first term started. Maybe instead of trying to fake online reviews, you should just start actually caring about the quality of your school instead of just how it appears."
So I have a feeling a good portion of the reviews you find are shady too!! Do your research!!!!
In the interests of fair and honest disclosure, I will say up froone known that I am a current WGU student. Up until now I have been nothing but pleased with WGU. I am enrolled in the BAIS program to obtain my degree in elementary education. I am very close to finishing the program. I have completed all of my general courses, my PCE (observations) work, and am only two weeks away from completing my demonstration (student) teaching.
So this was not a great time to learn that I have two journal entries that had to be submitted immediately in order for me to pass my cohort. When a student is enrolled in the teaching program there is a cohort and this involves a weekly call as well as journal entries. The journal entries are brief and simple. They are not the issue. The issue is that I did not know there was a deadline (aside from the obvious end of my term date, or end of my student teaching). The entries themselves probably only took 15 minutes total between the two of them.
Due to weather, our local internet service was out yesterday, when the first message came. Today it was repaired and functioning. So I received the message that I needed to complete these two journal entries so that I could pass the cohort because all of the passes were to be submitted by today.
I submitted them as quickly as was possible. However, because it is Friday (Saturday now) I can not reach anyone. My mentor is wonderful and I have nothing but high praise for her. However, I can't talk to her about the situation. Nor can I get in touch with my cohort facilitator, anyone at the college in the Field Experiences office, or my placement specialist.
So because the deadline is now past I am left to wonder all weekend whether I will actually fail the cohort because of these two 1-2 page journal entries which I had no idea were so urgent. I will update this page with the outcome of this whole fiasco, and if it is favorable take it down so others are not discouraged. I simply wanted to let everyone know of the current experience that I am having.
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Horrible Communication
RUN! Don't waste your time and money! They are full of "wishy washy" actions going on and HORRIBLE communication. Anyone you talk to will have a different answer. I called and asked if my university could send my my transcripts via fax. Which mind you they say they can accept your transcripts electronically. I had 3 people tell me different ideas on what it "allowed" and "not allowed" for sending transcripts to WGU. Someone saying it is ok, and someone saying no. I recommend just sending them by mail with these people if you choose to attend here. You cant do electronically. I also had my assessments completed and failed the tests with them being unable to tell me what I exactly I failed. And my councilor told me EVERYONE fails at least the first time around. Which is a red flag, especially with someone having taken many General Education courses. I was told I'm required to wait 30 days to re-take the assessments and I have to re-take all of them. Mind you, this is is requirement for everyone applying, even if you have completed your English and Math courses from another colleges. I will not be attending this college. I have a decent GPA of 3.3 for college and I am not someone to be lazy with my courses and course work. I am not one to wait till the last minute. I'm concerned that if their communications skills are lacking now, then what will it be like once I'm fully enrolled and taking courses?!?!?! And from reading other reviews, yea I really know now this school is not for me. Don't believe all the 5 stars. I came across a review from someone who worked there stating :
"90% of these 5-star reviews are plants
All
I am a WGU Mentor who put in my 2 weeks at WGU this week and in searching through this thread I am unable to verify most of these 5-star posts as being real students at Western Governors University. They are plants, except for "Christi Smith" who gave a raving review of Western Governors University 2 months before her first term started. Maybe instead of trying to fake online reviews, you should just start actually caring about the quality of your school instead of just how it appears."
So I have a feeling a good portion of the reviews you find are shady too!! Do your research!!!!
In the interests of fair and honest disclosure, I will say up froone known that I am a current WGU student. Up until now I have been nothing but pleased with WGU. I am enrolled in the BAIS program to obtain my degree in elementary education. I am very close to finishing the program. I have completed all of my general courses, my PCE (observations) work, and am only two weeks away from completing my demonstration (student) teaching.
So this was not a great time to learn that I have two journal entries that had to be submitted immediately in order for me to pass my cohort. When a student is enrolled in the teaching program there is a cohort and this involves a weekly call as well as journal entries. The journal entries are brief and simple. They are not the issue. The issue is that I did not know there was a deadline (aside from the obvious end of my term date, or end of my student teaching). The entries themselves probably only took 15 minutes total between the two of them.
Due to weather, our local internet service was out yesterday, when the first message came. Today it was repaired and functioning. So I received the message that I needed to complete these two journal entries so that I could pass the cohort because all of the passes were to be submitted by today.
I submitted them as quickly as was possible. However, because it is Friday (Saturday now) I can not reach anyone. My mentor is wonderful and I have nothing but high praise for her. However, I can't talk to her about the situation. Nor can I get in touch with my cohort facilitator, anyone at the college in the Field Experiences office, or my placement specialist.
So because the deadline is now past I am left to wonder all weekend whether I will actually fail the cohort because of these two 1-2 page journal entries which I had no idea were so urgent. I will update this page with the outcome of this whole fiasco, and if it is favorable take it down so others are not discouraged. I simply wanted to let everyone know of the current experience that I am having.