St. Louis Community College Meramec Campus

Love this school! Met great people and learned great things about the real world and who I am. I’ll never forget you meramac. Great school academically.

I’ve been here for maybe 2 or 3 years and I hate it here. These teachers don’t even want to teach and just sit around, don’t answer questions, and act like they would rather be somewhere else. Stop wasting the student’s time and find a new job.
Don’t get me started on financial aid. They are so unorganized and there have been so many times where they lose your paperwork and you have to drive all the way back and re-​submit forms. Then they also don’t even tell you everything you need to turn in. You have to keep calling to make sure that everything has been turned in. The wait to get to talk with a financial advisor is insane, they barely have anyone working there.
I had an appointment with this one counselor to make an outline of my courses. A year ago I barely had time to go to class because I had broken my leg and I had trouble getting to school, which made my class grade significantly drop. The counselor handed me a pamphlet that was about depression, suicide, and family troubles. Like are you kidding me? What an asshole. I didn’t say anything but I was very offended and I hope he loses his job for that.

This «institute» is the biggest unorganized mess I have ever experienced. And it depresses me to no end that I am stuck here until I finish my 2 year degree. Take my advice and avoid this school at all costs. The staff never answers your questions and when they mess up they vocally berate you over the phone.

Make sure you have the right degree program to transfer and credits will all transfer with an associates. This schools classes are excepted throughout St. Louis Universities… I give this school the same ratings as Eric except I give the teachers, comfort & décor a ⁵⁄₅. If your looking for information on schools Unilocal is not the place to do that.

Overall: 4.5÷5
Teachers: ⁵⁄₅
Resources: ⁵⁄₅
Cost: (Cheap!) ⁵⁄₅
Transferable Credits: ⁵⁄₅
Comfort: ⁴⁄₅
Cleanliness: ⁴⁄₅
Décor: ⁴⁄₅
This is my second semester here at Meramec, and I am loving it so far. Parking space is a little hard to come by nowadays, but you can expect that from a commuter college such as this. The place is pretty beautiful in the spring an summer, with most of the campus exposed to the outdoors. The only downside to this is here in the winter where going outside isn’t so much fun… There are soooo many classes here that can fill any major, or general interest. Great place to go if you are unsure of what you would like to do, and would simply like to get your general education classes and associates degree out of the way. These classes are super easy, as long as you allow time to do your homework and study. I strongly recommend doing so in the provided library. Saying that you’ll do so at home, for me anyway, would be a lie in order to loaf. Don’t set your classes up back to back, in order to come three days a week for four hours… Doing so will only result in your eventual laziness and 1.5 GPA. Allow some time inbetween classes in order to finish your homework right away. You’ll be thankful you did…
Teachers are, for the most part, very passionate about what they’re teaching. Most passionate I’ve seen before are Rebollo for Theatre/​Acting and Messmer for Constitutional Issues. Great teachers! I’ve also heard good things about Lee for American History and Hauser /​Frost for Chemistry. They all know exactly what they’re talking about, and are passionate enough about the subjects to make you passionate about the subject as well. Literally, almost all of the credits transfer to almost every University. If you know specifically where and what you are going for, I would definitely check. Though it’s safe to say there is a 99% possibility. CLEP tests are also available to be taken here, with availability to transfer to virtually any University.
Cost is roughly $ 90 per credit if you reside within the St. Louis county. It’s roughly $ 145 if you are out of district. If you have shopped around for college tuition, you will notice this is considerably cheep as compared to a University. These costs can be completely covered, and even include additional pocket change ($ 900 or so per semester) if you qualify for a Pell Grant through the FAFSA. Not to mention, the classes, so I’ve heard, are even far more interesting than the General Education courses provided at the Universities. So if your interested in a College with significantly lower costs (Or even coming out with more money than you started with), with far more passionate teachers, this is definitely the place to go.
Take 15 credits or more, definitely join one of their many clubs, and have fun! You’re sure to have a great time if you challenge yourself.

STLCC Meramec is a reasonably maintained campus in a traditionally safe area of town and the classes have a high transfer rate. Just make sure that you are on top of your class and financial information and don’t rely on information from administrative staff. Take notes if you do get information from them and include the day, time, name of representative and result of the conversation. Do your homework to ensure that the info you were given is correct. We had a bad situation and ended up with a bill for dropped classes due to bad info provided by staff. The correct info was out there, but we relied on what we were told by the staff member. That turned out to be a bad idea and because that staff person was no longer there, and we didn’t have notes about the meeting, we were stuck with a $ 1200 bill. Management were unsympathetic.