Plain-English Summary: Fast Grad Academy is an educational resource. It documents one person's real experience and explains publicly available credit-by-exam strategies. Nothing in this course is a guarantee of your results. What you achieve depends entirely on your own effort, situation, and choices. Read the full terms below.
Fast Grad Academy is a brand operated by Executive Strategy Consulting LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), a limited liability company. All purchases, agreements, and legal obligations are with Executive Strategy Consulting LLC d.b.a. Fast Grad Academy.
We do not guarantee any specific academic outcome, degree completion timeline, cost savings, admission result, or career benefit. The strategies described in this course are educational in nature. Individual results will vary based on many factors outside our control.
The Fast Grad Academy course describes the personal academic journey and strategies used by John Zheng, its founder. His experience — completing a bachelor's degree in approximately 12 months, reducing tuition costs significantly, and later earning a graduate degree — reflects his specific circumstances, choices, effort level, prior knowledge, geographic location, school policies at the time, and personal background.
His results are not typical. Your results will differ.
Factors that affect individual outcomes include but are not limited to:
Nothing in this course, on this website, or in any communications from Fast Grad Academy constitutes a guarantee, warranty, or promise that you will:
All content in the Fast Grad Academy course — including text, guides, tables, strategies, timelines, resource recommendations, and AI prompts — is provided for educational and informational purposes only.
This course is not:
Fast Grad Academy is an educational information product. It is not an accredited educational institution and does not grant degrees, diplomas, or college credit.
We strongly recommend consulting with a licensed academic advisor at your target institution before making enrollment, financial, or course decisions. Policies vary by school, change frequently, and must be verified directly with your institution.
This course references and links to third-party websites, platforms, and services (including but not limited to College Board, Modern States, Khan Academy, WGU, UMPI, Sophia Learning, Study.com, and Transferology). These are provided as educational references only.
We make reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy of information in this course. However, the landscape of credit-by-exam programs, university policies, and education costs changes frequently. We cannot guarantee that all information is current, complete, or accurate at the time you access it.
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Always verify credit transfer policies directly with your target school's registrar before spending money on an exam.
All course content — including written guides, structure, design, strategy frameworks, and presentation — is the intellectual property of Executive Strategy Consulting LLC. You may not reproduce, redistribute, resell, or share any portion of this course without express written permission.
Your purchase grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to access and use the course for your own educational purposes only. Sharing your access code with others is a violation of these Terms and may result in access revocation without refund.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Executive Strategy Consulting LLC and its principals, employees, contractors, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of this course or reliance on any information contained herein.
This includes but is not limited to:
Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with this course is to discontinue use, subject to the refund policy at fastgradacademy.com/refund.
References to specific schools (Harvard, WGU, UMPI, UMD, etc.), programs, or institutions are for illustrative and educational purposes only. Fast Grad Academy is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or in any way officially connected to any of these institutions. The use of their names is for descriptive accuracy only and does not imply endorsement of this course or its strategies.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and applicable federal law. Any dispute arising from your purchase or use of this course shall first be addressed through good-faith direct negotiation. You agree to contact us at hello@fastgradacademy.com before initiating any formal legal action.
We reserve the right to update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be reflected in an updated effective date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the course constitutes acceptance of any updated Terms.
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Executive Strategy Consulting LLC regarding your access to and use of the Fast Grad Academy course. They supersede any prior agreements or representations.
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