wyotech

[kcm1582]

for some reason id rather go to a technical school rather than the local state college. ive heard some good things but nothing thats really influential to me choosing them.

i originally chose wyotech cuz they offer several courses in 1 year. i wanted to learn alll about cars. plus welding and custom fab and business management but i can go back to college.

there is a uti close to here like within 300 miles. so any thing good/bad about uti?

The Problem is that they go to fast and not all the information that you need to learn gets taught or retained. Case and point:

I had to teach a wyotech boy how to use a timing light and vacuum gauge.

i asked him why they didn't even teach him the basics and he told me it was an extra course... he's 30k in debt.

i went to community college and learned EVERYTHING and got hands on experience everyday.

 

[swynx]

The Problem is that they go to fast and not all the information that you need to learn gets taught or retained. Case and point:

good point. i always kinda wonderd if itd happen that way. suppose the brain can only remember so much in one day

 

[Ranger44]

One bad thing I heard about any private technical school is they aren't certified by the state. Therefore....who's to certify the education you receive is up to par?

Them? But they are private, and basically a business. They don't have to meet the standards for the board of education. Therefore you could be shorted education and not even know it. For all you know they are passing you when they shouldn't to collect the paycheck and flop you out into the automotive industry with their form of a diploma.

Employers take notice to this. I went to a community college. State funded, state certified. Therefore my diploma means more to an employer.

I'm pretty damn sure I was hired into my current position over wyotech, and lincolntech students.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

One bad thing I heard about any private technical school is they aren't certified by the state. Therefore....who's to certify the education you receive is up to par?

Them? But they are private, and basically a business. They don't have to meet the standards for the board of education. Therefore you could be shorted education and not even know it. For all you know they are passing you when they shouldn't to collect the paycheck and flop you out into the automotive industry with their form of a diploma.

Employers take notice to this. I went to a community college. State funded, state certified. Therefore my diploma means more to an employer.

I'm pretty damn sure I was hired into my current position over wyotech, and lincolntech students.

My brother went to a tech school, I don't know if it was private or not. The state didn't care as much as Ford did, because it was a Ford ASSET program, he still goes out there for updates. Ford ran the show, what is to be taught and what wasn't, afterwards he was certified to warrenty work on the related subjects. At the same school GM, Dodge and John Deere had similar programs there.

Only thing is you have to have a dealer to sponser you, on the plus side you have a job when you get out.

He has been any too impressed by those that either went to a general auto class which seems to be just on the basic basics or wyotech, which seems to be focused on more the "cool" custom stuff that you will be hard pressed find a job doing.

 

[4.0B2]

i'd love to find a ford school to go to... that way i could get a job at ford straight out of it....

 

[cammeddrz]

I've heard bad things as well... I think a member on here said that someone they know had to call HIM on something simple because Wyo didn't teach him

that was me, i said :

my friend dustin who got back last summer from specializing in "performance engine building" recently called me up to ask me "when you are plasti-gauging, do you do it with? or without the bearing in?". i honestly thought he was messing with me. and he is one who ended up paying more than $100k at wyotech (before buying tools) he has his diplomas ("certificates" more like) hanging in his garage because no real shop wants to hire a wyotech guy so he has been working outside the industry.

i told him that he shouldn't hang them up, he should hide them

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

i'd love to find a ford school to go to... that way i could get a job at ford straight out of it....

The hard part is finding a dealer to sponser you. The dealer he works at now actually turned him down. It wasn't until he graduated and worked about a year at another dealer (that closed) that they became interested. And even then if it wasn't for our formor assistant scoutmaster/their shop foreman pitching a fit wanting him they probably wouldn't have made a place for him, and now he is the #2 guy in the shop.

 

[cammeddrz]

and even if you go to wyotech just to get general certifications (the cheap tuition classes) they have all the teachers and even special "counselors" (recruiters more like it) that try to up-sell you to add more classes and certifications the whole time you are there.

my buddy went to "major" in performance engine building, and he left with a double major because he added a second major of chassis fabrication (he is equally useless in both fields)

and sadly a mutual friend of ours from high school owns the premier hot-rod building shop here he hired him, and had fired him in less than 3 months because despite specializing (and graduating) in those 2 fields he was incompetent to work in the industry

 

[feellnfroggy]

WYOTECH and UTI arent automechanics school, they specialize in teaching you more about service writing, and using the electronic scantools. They do not teach you about using a screwdriver or stethoscope to find a knock or how to analyze cars when the power is out. Blah blah.

 

[The_Dealer]

i was wanting to go to the Nascar tech, branch of UTI in mooresville nc, where my mom and stepdad live. he is the shop foreman for redbull racing(nascar, scott speed, kasey kane, etc.) and everyone he talked to including team shop members from various teams said its the biggest waste of money($36k a year!!!) just to find a good technical college with a good automotive class and take every single one u can, be cheaper and have less people enrolled giving more one on one and hands on time. also said find a project and figure it out the best u can, and ask anybody for opinions(just to get different peoples techniques and tips on doing somehting). just find a good local tech school and go from there. thats what im gonna do. plus welding and fab classes too

 

[97RangerXLT]

before you go to *any* college or tech school, make sure it is an ACCREDITED school. this means that it has to meet and or exceed standards in teaching of the programs that it offers. your diploma or certificate does not me jack shiat to an employer if it comes from an unaccredited institution.

basically you can come to 97RangerXLT's school of muffler bearing repair and i will only charge you 25k in tuition and will give you a certificate that you completed the course.. hell i will even use the good quality paper for the certificate. And my certificate will be worth as much as any other unaccredited institutions certificate in a job hunt.

AJ

 

[4.0B2]

lets open a TRS school!

 

[The_Dealer]

i got enough t-cases for everybody to learn how to rebuild em for me

 

[4.0B2]

got a 1354m?? lol... that is one thing i've never had apart is a t/case

 

[RangerSVT]

My G/F at the time wanted to attend NADC (Nashville Auto Diesel College) so I joined her for a walk-through. I was highly impressed with the school. If you are going in for engine repair, your desk was an engine. I'm talking 30 engines sitting in the classroom, and they teach you to fully disassemble and reassemble that engine and then you run that engine that you built. High class all the way...That was just one class, they have autobody repair/finishing, transmissions, anything and everything to deal with automotive, including big trucks. I know it's a little far from you, but its definitely worth it. They also allow you to bring and work on your own ride and they even teach you with your ride being part of your schoolwork. Not only do you learn everything you want to, but you can build your truck in the process
SVT