South Suburban College (SSC Thornton Junior College) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

South Suburban College has open, effectively 100% general admission - the application itself is not a competitive filter. The real gatekeeping happens at the program level, especially in Allied Health. If your target is nursing or a similarly credentialed field, treat general SSC admission as step zero and build your first-year schedule around the separate program application instead of assuming enrollment equals a guaranteed seat.

SSC's Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program requires biology courses (other than BIO 102) to be completed within the five years prior to applying, and admission is decided by a committee after review - not checklist completion alone. Sequence your prerequisite biology courses so they land close to your intended application term, and confirm your standardized pre-admission nursing exam score clears the required 70% minimum well before you submit, since it's given at your own expense.

SSC has a formal Guaranteed Admission Transfer Partnership with Saint Xavier University that locks in admission and unlocks Preferred Partnership Scholarship consideration, but it requires proactively submitting a Guaranteed Admission Participation Form well before you're ready to transfer - it is not automatic. Filing this in your first year, while still building your associate degree plan, is the highest-leverage move available to SSC students aiming at a four-year degree.

Illinois's IAI (Illinois Articulation Initiative) General Education Core Curriculum lets gen-ed credits transfer as a satisfied block to Illinois four-year publics and IAI-participating private schools like Saint Xavier - but only if you take the specific IAI-coded sections, not just any course with a matching title. Cross-check every gen-ed course against the current IAI list with your advisor before registering.