I'm currently out at the Laramie campus in the Automoive Core and after that I'm taking High Performance Engines.
If you do go to WyoTech, don't you dare take the Applied Service Management course. I didn't learn a damn thing in it. I didn't pay attention at all after week one and pretty much fucked off the whole day and still managed above 94% each phase. It's completely disorganized, the rules are enforced like it's the military, the instructors are all looney space-cases, and if you have a problem with something, they don't give a shit and it pretty much goes unsolved. I actually almost said fuck it and dropped out because of the shit I went through in ASM, but hey, I got a 2-year Associate's Degree in 3 months, so... yay?
As for the core classes, they're awesome so far. The instructors actually have experience and they love to shoot the shit and we fuck around sometimes, but in a way we're actually doin'g something. They can probably tell you everything about every make and model of car from the late 70s and on. The rules are way less restrictive and you actually are compelled to pay attention, mainly because there's so much information thrown at you at once in core.
They do say that a lot of the companies that come to the WyoTech campuses prefer that you have the ASM class under your belt, and some aren't even hiring if you haven't taken it. But there are a lot of free lifetime services you get after you hire like: job relocation help, resume updating and mailing to employers of your choice, and you can even come back and take phases for free (at least my recruiter told me that). Also, when you graduate, they'll mail your resume out to up to 40 employers, so that saves some hassle of doing that.
And you can't get a job anywhere when you graduate. A LOT of companies require you practically be an honor student with perfect attendance just to get an interview. And if you talk to a recruiter, he'll tell you that 95% or something of the graduates get "placed in the field." And that includes all the idiots that graduated and now work at the friendly neighborhood Jiffy Lube. If you put into it what you want out of it, you'll get it. Otherwise you'll end up paying your giant loan off making barely enough money to pay rent or mortgage.
I will say that Laramie is pretty lame though. I find it boring in town, and rarely am. I go to Ft. Collins every weekend, or out to the mountains to hunt and fish and just to be out there.
So all in all, I'd say WyoTech is a pretty good school, but UTI isn't a bad choice either.
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