Delaware Technical Community College - Stanton Campus - Newark — Local services in Brookside

As a chemistry student with a 3.8 GPA, that has attended other 4 year universities, this review comes with experience, and not hate or spite. The two star rating is split between the amazing chemistry department, the math department which is complete trash, and the general lack of office management at this school.

Starting with the math department, their teachers and adjuncts do not care about their students. They live with a "if you get it you get it, if you don't, you just drown" philosophy. I've had math teachers get smart with me on assignments and write things like "answer the question?" with no other comments or help provided. If you go to the math center they say things like "were here to tutor, not to teach", as if the definition of a tutor, isn't a private teacher. It's absolutely absurd and ridiculously messy, I constantly hear students complaining and saying the same things, boiling down to the fact that the math teachers just don't care.

Their chemistry and science department is the complete opposite. All my science teachers have taken the time to tutor and make sure everyone that wants help, gets it. They hire professors and scientists with PHDs that are very intelligent, know what they are talking about, and just generally have caring hearts. I'm still amazed at the difference of how much help I've recievied and even been offered when it wasn't needed, compared to the math center. I would tell anyone looking to forward their education in science, to start with this school, just take your math classes somewhere else.

The reason for 2 stars and not 3, comes from how bad their offices and assistance systems work. I've had numerous problems with financial aid, included someone getting smart and hanging up on me, because their colleague gave me the wrong information. It's also pretty hard to just get general information from the school. As with everything though, you take the good with the bad if you really want it. Overall, it's an education that you have to fight and have patience for, but it's still...

Financial aid office is unorganized and doesn’t keep track of documents they are receiving. I tried applying for the SEED scholarship since I was eligible. Made me submit certain documents time and time again each time with different requirements. After literally several months of going back and forth completing and resubmitting documents and waiting in the zoom room just for someone to tell me that they still don’t have everything they need (even though I turned in EVERYTHING that they asked for) .And I forgot to add that at one point in time I had asked my mom to email them for me because I was having such a hard time and one of the people in financial aid had told her that they had everything they needed and that I would be AWARDED for the scholarship. I go through the semester thinking that the cost would be covered only to reach the end and find that they STILL have a hold on my account and that I wasn’t awarded anything. I reach out to the business office who was MUCH more helpful than financial aid And they tell me that the financial aid office is NOW requesting a transcript of my parents taxes from the IRS(that they didn’t ask for before) which the IRS is taking forever to even respond. They tried to say that they were emailing me this information but I checked my school email and every other email address that I own and there is not A SINGLE EMAIL from the financial aid office requesting any additional documentation. NOW I have to pay for the classes they claimed would be free for every Delaware student who met certain educational...

I'm highly disappointed in my local community.College that refers to themselves as being available for the working person. I enrolled in the school A few years after covid I explain that I was a mom with two children Attempting to go back to school. And that My husband works night shift and I had limited support to help me with the children.They insured me that everything was fine.Due to COVID, they offered majority of their classes online.This was very beneficial for me as a full time working mom With 2 children I was able to work full-time and go to school.I was taking about 3 to 4 classes at a time sometime 2. I got. Halfway through my associates degree.And now the school has decided to change their policy on virtual asynchrony education I went from being able 2,3 and sometimes even 4 class I am very upset but with the last 2 semesters.I have only been able to complete one class per semester because of their policy changes.And when I email the school about my disgruntled ness I was basically told that they don't care. Is very...