Edwin562

UTI completely raped me. dont do it.

fcdrifter20

agree with this guy.....uti helped me in no way with all that im doing now in the automotive industry. all it did was put me in debt!!!

Chaluska

run far far away from UTI, I went when all the courses were "only" 25k. i took everything, each class yielded a few new interesting facts, but for the price of UTI, you can go to a real college, get a REAL bachelors degree that will get you a REAL 80K / yr job.

no one wants to come home with greasy hands, and back pain... make a smart decision for your future.. dont blow it away at UTI

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Silviaracer1988

i looked in to tech schools like that and realized that community college is not only cheaper but smarter also. hell i even go to school for free because of my age. cant beat it

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silntalrm

I know a few guys who have gone to UTI. Let's just say I have a friend who works at Sears Auto Center with no such schooling and is doing better than the guys who went to UTI.

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dperez0426

hope someone actually takes into consideration for what I'm about to write:

I am currently attending UTI Glendale Heights, IL and when I first started I was really exited but by the time I was on my 4th class I realized that it was not the “Best of the Best” as they claim to be.

My reason for writing in this forum are simple. I’m just really disappointed with the school and is definitely not the “Best of the Best”. Classes are overcrowded definitely not smaller than 25 students some time there are more students than places to sit, in two different occasions I had to sit at the end of the table and was extremely uncomfortable.

I was told before I attended that classes where going to be small big enough for the instructors to have enough time for what they call “Lab time”, and more hands on. Unfortunately all they told me was not really accurate.

When they tell you will have “Lab time” they are more concentrated in filling your lab sheet that the State requires them to be completed. So far I had very little experience on taking things apart or repairing. Since there are usually more than 25 students and one instructor (with the rare occasion of another instructor helping out for one day due to the fact that all instructors are required to work one double shift) there is not enough time to help all the students understand what they are working on, you always have to wait a long period of time for the instructor to help out. Once you complete your lab assignments about 95% of the time they are not check over so your Lab grade is always 100% with the exception on your lab final. If you didn’t understand what you worked on when you did your lab sheets you have a bigger chance to lower your grade since lab final is 30% of your grade. Most instructors just glance at your work and give you the full grade.

Class time well its class time. There has been many time where I have just showed up to school and do nothing all day just to take my Lab exam and on the next day is the same thing, show up to take your final exam but the rest of the time is just a waste of time. They call this study time but for me is them taking my money for doing absolutely nothing. If your late or leave early you get an infraction even if your there wasting time.

Over all what they call the “best of the best” is just perfect attendance nothing more. They will reward you for having perfect attendance right after your first class by them inviting you for lunch and for every 3 courses you continue to have perfect attendance you get a new ID badge stating you have so many courses completed with perfect attendance. If you continue on the same route on your 12th course you get this nice shirt that says “BEST OF THE BEST”. Don’t get me wrong if you try hard enough and get the best class grade you are given a pin stating your are the “Student of the Course” and a parking spot assigned to you for the next course. Isn’t that nice?

Financial aid, well its financial Aid they there to convince you to add more electives.

The instructors, some are good but some don’t not have business teaching and some definitely are good.

Think about what I have say. I wouldn’t take the time to write all this is it wasn’t true.
For all that are debating this school I hope you make the right choice and good luck in your career. I would have preferred Wyotech..

Thanks for reading.
David

Driftwire

youll learn more on zilvia and in your driveway than at UTI. My buddy goes now and is a box of rocks

HyperTek

now a days, its a matter of someone giving you the chance to work. I went to a tech school for something else, but even that sucks. You apply for jobs and its on the employer if they want to accept your "paid" school background or not.

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gambit420s

My post from this thread, still relevant

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MrSanchez925

stay away from "trade" schools like that. its such a rip off.

I go to a community college that runs an auto program and its by far 100% better.
We even have Former Wyotech students in the class who say its better.

it consists of 7 separate classes.
Suspension & steering
Diagnosis 1
diagnosis 2
Brakes
Electrical
AUto trans
manual trans

each class 1 hr of lecture time and 4 hrs of actual Live customer work.


So you get a real feel on how to diagnos and repair, instead of having to work on "donated" cars and never knowing if your "repair" lasts or not

In all honesty its like having an actual job while being there..

All in all you get what you put into it. and that goes for any trade school or classes.

word sux

yea and that was from all applicants not just uti.



went to uti. wasted so much time and money. I have lost count of how many people I have told to avoid this scam. Go there for a year and owe them $25k+ ( i think its well over 30k now) or go work in the field learn more and actually earn money.


Guess what, you go to uti and you are going to come out and be a C tech. You will not be making flat rate you will be slinging oil and tires and doing my bitch work. Hey someone's gotta clean my tools and I only accept the best uti grads, and if you do a good job I will teach you more in a week then what uti spent a year teaching you.

Goofs

Edit nevermind

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