Southern Technical College - Sanford — Attraction in Sanford

I went and graduated from stc for welding. The program was a mess and calling is disorganized would be an understatement. I constantly blew up the student surveys and talked with the instructors. Nothing ever changed and was constantly given the escuse that they hadn't taught the course before. The following statement should sum of the school. I graduated Feb of 2022, and so did my girlfriend. Yet, neither of us have ever received our degrees. The school has zero issue calling to hound us about whether or not we are in our field to get their placement numbers up. Yet we can't even get them to send us our degrees we earned. I also ended up owing the VA money because of a paperwork issue that the school messed up on. After going back and forth with the school over the course of a year they still couldn't get it right. So I opted to pay the money just to get passed this headache. Meeting my girlfriend at this school was the only thing that saved me from regretting attending. However, find a different school elsewhere. This one should be considered the poster child for for-profit school. Take your money and give you the bare minimum in return.

Also, alot of the five star reviews are submitted by the staff. Patsy is the director of course she's going to give it five stars.

Update - my girlfriend is now my wife of two months! We still never got our degrees but gave up. I still get emails from them updating me on class schedules as though I'm still attending and didn't graduate 2 years ago, so obviously I still stand behind my review.

Update 2 - Mar 2025 still never got our diplomas my wife even walked the stage in Feb 2022. We have been married for over a year now. I still get emails from the school about class schedules like I attend the school even though I graduated 3+ years ago. I will continue to update each year. I still continue to actively tell people to not...

PLEASE READ!! Currently submitting my application for borrower's defense. Attended STC from August 2012 - January 2014. Absolute worst decision of my life. A decade later, I'm fighting for my loans to be discharged and paid debt refunded. I received my Associate of Science in Medical Assisting. I've worked as an MA since graduation but haven't made any progress in the field. At first, I was very unprepared to work. Externship was nowhere close to being MA related. I verified insurances and took one blood pressure during the whole month. I complained to my extern coordinator who ignored me and told me to give them time. I was set up to fail. I did not receive as much training as I needed. I can't transfer my credits to further my education. I'm afraid to go back to school because I don't want to add to my student loan debt. When applying to attend STC, I was mislead to believe that I was going to be able to transfer my credits, always have a job, make good money and continue my education in medicine... WRONG! I was young and naive and believed every word they said to me. All lies. Hung onto every promise. All broken. I can't count how many nights I cried myself to sleep as I drowned in debt and depression. It has negatively affected my mental and physical health on every level. I regret every moment and every penny. If I'd known how lousy the field was...how much stress my student loan debt would cause me...I would have NEVER walked into this abysmal excuse for an educational institution. I will never trust another technical or vocational school again. Edit 8.19.22 Dear "owner", No. I will not be sharing my private information online. I will call the number listed on the website and ask for the "owner" or whoever responded to my review. I will not take this review down. STC ruined my life and...

Very disappointed with your dirty play towards my daughter. You crushed her dream with your lack of management when it came to externship situation. Your charade was incredible, for nothing. So much for the so called "help" which meant nothing. She work hard and sacrifice a lot, and there's money involved. That seems to be what you care for, as long as students are in debt owning money. You portrait yourself as the best of the best out there, and emphasize in students guarding the prestige of the school in and out of it, but what about you when it comes to doing your part when the student needs you the most. You sent her to two places they were a waste of her time and still she made hours of externship, one of them a very troubled clinic you knew about. You compromised your word that you in a week fixing everything for her to finish the hours in a place. After she filled the application you sent her to, and even received a text confirming were working with it, you dare to send her a text saying you were withdrawing her and she needed to re-enroll do to not 14 days not attendance. Those were days she did what you ask and waited as you said. How do you pretend for her to re enroll as if all her sacrifice all this time was for nothing. Those were not the things talked in the meeting 10/28/2024 when you clearly said you'll solved this situation. You practically are punishing her for something that's not up to her, and she had no control but with for you to do your part base on the text received 11/4/2024; Then yesterday 11/12/2024 you dare to text, not call but text that you were dropping her out... Very dirty...