SCU, Accelerated Science CoursesReviews of scuhs.edu

There was a ton of miscommunication and when I tried to figure anything out for the payments every person told me something different. When no one could answer and clarify my account got locked. I payed way too much in late fees for things that were not my fault. Whenever I tried and spoke to someone they were mostly rude and condescending, the disrespect I experienced was just not right. This was probably the worse experience and unfortunately for you guys I was going to take a few more classes but after this experience I’m reconsidering my options.

The expectation of time spent was extreme. I have other classes as well as working and they expected me to spend 4 hours a day to keep up with the demands of the class and they made that clear. Then I spent my own personal money to buy an external webcam to met with the testing guidelines and set it up best I could with the limited space I had and they still complained and refused to accept the best I could do with my set up and I wa denied from taking the exam. Thag was the straw that broke the camels back for me after going through some of the the most stressful two weeks of my life trying to keep up with the extreme demands presented to me. The class content itself made zero sense. The lecture videos were short and didn’t go into detail about the topic and would quickly move to example problems where he would come up with numbers I had no clue how he got to input into equations. Genuinely the worst class I have ever experienced in my life, including in person and online classes I have taken previously.

Course load and software made it extremely difficult to navigate through the course, prepare to spend 5 hours + on one assignment.

The professor was terrible, answered no emails, and did not even post a single lecture video. He instead posted supplemental videos from YouTube.

I took the SCUHS Accelerated Statistics class to fulfill a requirement for graduate school. I chose this program because I needed to have the class finished and transcript sent by the time of orientation. The statistics class was nearly $1600 once you paid the fees to register. To be honest, I was quite disappointed with the course. I have taken other online, asynchronous courses in the past that involve pre-recorded lectures by the professor with other supplemental materials, and this course was not that. Basically, you pay $1600 for access to a series of error-filled PowerPoints that are your "textbook", an online service through McGraw Hill that will provide you with 20-40 videos per week that serve as the "lectures", around 45 homework questions that can have up to 5 subquestions, and links to YouTube videos that I'm not sure the school has the rights to use. From the start, the class was disorganized. There is limited communication with the professor (who really just acts more as a supervisor, since most of the instruction comes from The Organic Chemistry Tutor YouTube channel), and at first we were told that graphing calculators would not be allowed for this class. That initially was not a problem; however, the lecture videos and textbook slides both take time to explain how to use certain functions on the graphing calculators AND only an hour is given for each exam, making performing a standard deviation calculation using a standard scientific calculator nearly impossible. Beyond those issues, I took an exam that had an incomplete question. It gave the beginning part of a question and the associated data and nothing else. As I was in the middle of the exam, I reached out to the proctor who couldn't help and after submitting the exam, asked the professor to review the question. It really bothered me that I paid that much money to never have any instruction from the professor of the course, errors in the textbook made learning the material confusing at times (such as incorrect notation in an equation where all the variables are referred to as p), and things generally seemed incomplete. Although I did well in the class, I essentially paid money to teach myself with materials that were free. While this class is convenient if you are in a time crunch, I wouldn't recommend it anyone. If learning on your own is not your strong suit, you will struggle with this class. It can be time consuming trying to parse the textbook and finish all of the homework questions in addition to the weekly discussion board requirements and quizzes. There are plenty of other schools that offer pre-requisite courses that are cheaper, actually taught by a professor, and more complete.

They are the worse of the worse. The discussions, quizzes, adaptive reading, homeworks, exams are ridiculously high. If someone works and take only 1 class at this school trust me you will have no time not eat, sleep or anything. The amount of work expected to do in Biochemistry is extremely high. The Professor wants to give a one month worth of work in 1 week. Even if you don't work you will have no time to do everything they ask. I give you an example. If week 1 have 4 to 8 chapters you have to take each chapter a long homework for each yes you read it right and on top of that you have to do each chapter and adaptive reading which is like a quiz/homework, and then you have to take a quiz at the end but the discussion you need to do a 200 words for doing it and answer 2 student at 200 words which that place you at 600 words per discussions. I mean wow this is ridiculous. This university needs the professor of Biochemistry to teach the most important not to give you so much information and so much volume of work to make out the original 4 months in a normal semester. I think if they teach the importance the volume doesn't have to be so crazy. I hardly sleep because working full time and taking only 1 accelerated course the amount of work you do it's like you have 5 or more classes at one sitting and that's is why I think it's way to ridiculous. I'm very disappointed they need to fix this because other students are clueless and you don't learn anything or grasp nothing since you have so much work it does not give you any time to study for the exams and like I said before you will have to study day and night and be lack of sleep not even med school was like this undergrad biochemistry class. If you thinking to take prerequisite u suggest you to go to another school and take it like a normal semester if you want to learn the material. Otherwise u don't care about GPA or learning then you can go to this school just to get the class but if you don't learn biochemistry I will tell you by experience it will suck in med school trust me. So listen carefully and study biochemistry in a regular way like a semester where you can grasp the material and actually learn it. Good luck .

Algebra course was WAY harder for college algebra compared to other courses. Not enough help.

Numerous instances have left me deeply regretting my decision to enroll in this institution. First, contacting the help desk took hours, leaving me frustrated and helpless. Second, administrative responses to emails were painfully slow, taking days for follow-ups. Lastly, the head of the SCU online program deceitfully misled us about reimbursement—a betrayal of trust that left me disillusioned. These experiences underscore my grievances with the administration. Moreover, the lackluster efforts of the professors exacerbated my dissatisfaction. Instead of offering original insights, they merely regurgitated textbook material, leaving exam and homework expectations misaligned. For instance, while statistics homework necessitated the use of Excel and a scientific calculator, Exam 1 instructions forbade their use, causing confusion and unnecessary stress. Following the exam, the professor only fleetingly acknowledged his error regarding the exam instructions, briefly mentioning that scientific calculators were permitted. However, defensively, he asserted that the exam could be completed without a calculator. Furthermore, the evident struggles of my online peers mirrored my own discontent. As weeks passed, discussion board participation dwindled from approximately ten students to a mere two to four—a clear indicator of widespread dissatisfaction. It's evident that SCU prioritizes profit, making it imperative to steer clear of this money-grabbing program. TLDR: Money-grabbing low quality program. Avoid the school. Unless you don’t care about learning, your grades, or your money.