UTI Schools
 

Has anyone here gone to any UTI thatcould give me
some info on how the school is. My son just registered
yesterday and it does sound pretty good but any info
from experiance would be nice mark

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i work at a VW dealership and most of our techs have gone to school there, and either the school blows ass or the techs are just plain stupid. i am in no way a mechanical genious but i know more than most of the techs in the shop



hope that helps

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I thought your kid registered awhile ago. I have been told by a few people, its just like any other school, its all of what you make of it. Some kids go there, do nothing but party, ---- off, and just get the certificate not really knowing anaything. -then i have heard that some people go there, really apply themselves, study, and learn everything they can, and do really well.

So its like everything else in life, its all of what you make of it.

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my friend finished there he was a mechanic for 2 years got fired then was a store manger at a oil change place for 2 years fired now he works at McDonalds not jokin ill post pictures if you dont believe me. its just like any other school its all just of what you make of it

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I have a friend that went too wyo-tech and he said he didnt like it there, so he dropped it after about 2 months. He said he was studing stuff he all ready knew. It could of just been that for the first month or so you learn basics.

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thats how any circurlicum (sp) of any school works. they start everyone from page 1, just like any other school. just because your buddy knew what was going on in the first few months, doesnt mean the rest of the class didnt know it. ;)

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which one is he going to? im going to the AZ in the fall. i went and toured it, it kicks ass

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uti... urinary track infection lol..

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thanx for the replys
45psi he's going to Pheonix also,starts aug.29th
and hes going down there over spring break to get every
thing set up like his apt and to fill out some job apps.

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For junkyard racer... My friend was schooling students at the school he attended that were already finishig up the program.

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IT SUCKS A FAT ONE! I attended UTI for 15 weeks at the avandale, AZ campus and all i could think to myself while in class is this sucks i could be teaching this so i quit. Ask anybody that goes there for their true opinion and its always "i hate this school". It's like going back to highschool again. You need passes to go anywhere have to sign out to go to the bathroom,can't miss more than 12 hours or you have to repeat the class, its a ------- nazi camp...any questions hit me up. I tried to give it a fair chance and it was as bad as it gets.

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i go to uti in glendale heights, IL. its a pretty good school, very good oppurtunitys. you have to do really well if you want to get anywhere tho. personally i like. are a lot of rules but im just about half done so it doesnt bother me. any questions about it just pm me or somethin

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Two of my best friends went there. One went fro 2 weeks and one finished. What I hear a lot of people say is I already know the ---- I'm learning or I could learn this on my own. But the question for them is why aren't they making $40 an hour as a master tech at a dealership if they know every thing.

The school starts slow because they have to assume tath people know nothing. There is no requirment for previous car knowledge so at first they have to bring the kid who doesn't know where the drain plug is up to speed.

My friend that finished the school knew how to make dual exhaust out of flex pipe when he started. Now he's an Acura tech, made almost 40K his first year out of the school, has all the ase certs except for one, and is the only person I know that can talk circles around me about how certain things work.

I know some people will say ASE certs are easy to get any on could get them. But most people don't know things like, how to diagnose abs problems, AC problems, stuff like that.

All that being said You don't have to go to a trade school to get a job at a dealer. He has people at his dealership that are being trained on the job. But you usually have to know someone to get that deal.

Also I would rccomend that he definitely do one of the graduate programs that gaurantees him a job once hes done if they have a company that he wants to work for.

Ok I'm done

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both my cousin matt and my cousin david went to UTI in Phoenix.

its a good school, just tell him to be careful cause its located in the ghetto.

first night i was there going to a nearby school, i was hearing gunshots, and police sirens, and fighting screams n ---- all night. i was like 18 and from a town of 1000 people, i almost jumped a plane home, but toughed it out. Got jumped a couple times and hit by a car in the process but oh well.

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When I started my engineering degree I started by learning math that I already knew. You always start with basics no matter what your going for

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What kind of engineering you do Whitey?? I'm in my fourth year of mechanical.

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ya i'm going to go to either the uti in pen. for hotrod u ,nascar tech(owned and ran by uti)in north carolina or wyotech in Pen. problly going to go tour them all during the summer

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I think you have to do the regular program before you can do hot rod or the nascar thing

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I'm thinking I will go to UTI (their new campus in pheonix)
I'll probably go tour it this summer.

Im thinking I could probably learn to be a Porsche tech before I go to a real university.

What do you guys think of that plan?

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i cant justify paying 22k for the same cert i can get @ the community college for 4k. But for all you peeps going to the phoenix school lemme know if you want to get a meet going

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yeah, although I haven't looked into UTI..majority of my classes I've taken at my comm college. the teachers are really good and the depth and quality really surprised me. the only problem is aside from the other classes as far as dealer related education they only have Suburu training, but none the less, it beats the 22k for Wyotech or Licoln Tech

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nascar program is a grad program and hot rod u is part of the courses you take b4 graduating hot rod u is at like the very end and ive heard its not that cool i wouldnt know i only went to uti for a couple weeks before realizing you can get the same education at a jr college