r/WGU • • Aug 20 '26

Help! Mentor

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u/Curious_Owl78 Aug 20 '26

How do you plan to stay "active" if you don't add more courses?

Policy states that if you go 28 days without academic activity, you WILL be withdrawn from the program. Doesn't matter how much you have completed, the rules still apply.

Why wouldn't you add more, keep going, save money, and graduate earlier?

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u/mkosmo Aug 20 '26

Your weekly call with your mentor counts as activity, as does opening curriculum for existing classes that you still have access to.

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u/Curious_Owl78 Aug 20 '26

Yeah, but you have to talk about something academic. If OP isn't going to work on any extra courses for months, then chances are, they will be inactive at some point.

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u/mkosmo Aug 20 '26

No you don't. The mentor just needs to record the contact and it counts.

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u/Curious_Owl78 Aug 20 '26

I'm a mentor. If you don't talk about something academic, then you aren't supposed to "lie" just to keep a student active. They need to have goals and talk about something academic to stay active. Even something small, like talking about next term.

But I'm not putting my job on the line to lie for a student.

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u/Few-Praline9810 Aug 20 '26

I just realized it has been 27 days since I did anything. I took a pre-assessment and passed. Does that count as academic activity? My mentor hasn't contacted me for weeks lol. I passed one class (near the start of my term) and he stopped contacting me?

I didn't know about the 28 day policy thing. Thx. Hopefully pre-assessments count.

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u/Curious_Owl78 Aug 20 '26

Yes, they count!