Saint Louis Community College (St Louis Community College) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

The Missouri A+ Schools Program covers up to 18 credit hours per semester at STLCC (minus any Pell grant or non-loan federal aid), but eligibility requires a written agreement signed with the student's high school before graduation - this cannot be arranged retroactively after enrollling at STLCC. Students must attend an A+-designated high school for at least two years before graduation, graduate with at least a 2.5 GPA, maintain at least 95% attendance across grades 9?12, and complete 50 hours of unpaid tutoring or mentoring (up to 25% of which can be job shadowing) prior to graduation. Families should confirm A+ designation status and begin the written agreement process as early as sophomore year, since the tutoring-hours requirement alone takes sustained effort to complete.

STLCC's nursing program - winner of the 2024 Bellwether Award, one of the most competitive and prestigious honors in community college education - requires a 2.5 minimum GPA maintained on the nursing applicant list (not just at the time of application), specific prerequisite courses each completed with a C or better (including Anatomy & Physiology II, General Microbiology, Human Growth & Development, and Chemistry), a TEAS exam, and a mandatory follow-up interview with a Nursing Retention Coach. General admission to STLCC does not guarantee admission to the nursing program - students should treat the nursing application as an entirely separate competitive process layered on top of college admission, and should map their prerequisite course sequence with an advisor from their very first semester.

STLCC has formal dual admission nursing partnerships with Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Webster University - allowing students to be simultaneously enrolled at STLCC and a four-year partner institution while completing their associate degree. This structure gives students access to support services and resources at both institutions during the transition and creates a clearer, pre-mapped pathway to a BSN rather than requiring a separate transfer application process after AAS completion. Students with bachelor's-level nursing ambitions should investigate dual admission eligibility specifically, rather than assuming they'll handle the university transfer application independently after finishing at STLCC.

STLCC operates through five physical campuses (Florissant Valley, Forest Park, Meramec, South County, Wildwood) plus the Harrison Education Center, and not every program is offered identically at every location. Students should confirm which campus offers their specific program of interest, and weigh commute time and campus-specific resources (like the nursing labs available at certain locations) when applying, rather than assuming the application process and program offerings are uniform across all locations as in a single-campus institution.