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When Walden changes something that costs you

Walden revises its restricted-state list, its Pledge terms, its tuition and its credit requirements without announcing any of it. We read those documents anyway. When something moves that would change a decision, we write it down.

What actually arrives

Once a month at most, and nothing at all in a month where nothing changed. We would rather send eleven notes a year than manufacture a twelfth.

  • Restricted-state changes

    The list of states where Walden will not approve a practicum does move. If yours is added or removed, that is the first line of the note.

  • Pledge and practicum terms

    Eligibility, mileage, covered specialisations. The conditions are the product, so when they change the advice changes with them.

  • Tuition and credit requirements

    Per-credit rates, programme lengths and transfer ceilings — with the arithmetic redone, not just the new number quoted.

  • What we got wrong

    When we correct something on this site, the correction goes in the note too, with what changed and why.

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Why this exists

Because the documents that decide these questions are not written to be read by prospective students, and they change quietly. A nurse who checked the restricted-state list in March and enrolled in September may have relied on an answer that had already moved.

We are reading them regardless, for the nurses we work with. Sending the summary costs us nothing and occasionally saves someone a year.