My UTI meeting experience
 

UTI - Universal Technical institute, I will be going to NTI - Nascar Technical Institute Aug 25th its another school of UTI.

Yesterday was the meeting at the Exton,PA UTI campus for me to get to know more about the school, get hooked up with 2 room mates and listen to several guys speak about the school. I had to take a 150 question test to get a scholarship at the meeting, the test had questions on Auto,English,History,Science,Math and then they threw in some random trivia questions that made you think wtf does this have to do with school. As i looked around the room full of about 300 people I saw roughly 15-20 girls that had a name tag that will be students at the school. I was expecting 2 girls at most. Shows a change that more and more girls are getting interested in cars and working on them. What I got out of the meeting is that as long as you have nearly perfect attendence, read your notes, dont be a fool, and make the best out of yourself. The school will be fun and rewarding. The school buys cars to work on and learn how to install performance parts on the car. In one of the shops they had a yellow 04 GTO, a 98-02 LS1 camaro that was stripped on the inside with a bottle os NOS in the hatch. an LT1 camaro, Late 90's toyota supra, a few hot rods and just a bunch of regular cars to work on like ford taurus. School is set up just like a high school with classroom after classroom, besides the garages. Each classroom is a different class. On average you are in each class for 3 weeks. one class is brakes, trans, rears, wiring, electroics, motor machining, and etc. My two room mates seem to be good, one is extremly quite and the other one is basically like me. So that means i dont have to worry about someone smoking every 20 mins or just being a waste of space. 3 people in one appartment means about $250 per person a month for rent. Some people may ask me why did I choose to go to NTI and not just UTI or any other community college and take auto classes. My answer I want to have nascar as a background for me so i understand the basics of working and fabricating the car. Going to NTI does not mean you get onto a team. You have to know someone to get onto a team. Good thing for me I know an Ex crew chief. Only 4% of graduates of NTI make it onto a nascar team. The others go into a dealership which is a wonderful job as long as you take the MSAT program ( Manufactuer Specific Advanced Training ) I want to leave my self with every option open thats why i have to have a 99-100% attendence for the 15 month program. This will allow me to be able to get accpeted into any of the MSAT programs such as BMW, Mercedes-benz,Porsche, Audi.

If there is anything else you want to ask about my experience so far feel free to ask.

Cars in the garage

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...yGuy/supra.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...nnyGuy/LS1.jpg

OK I can't read any further

Congrats man, sounds like a great opportunity.

sounds coool

congrads

im actually at student right now at uti in avondale az, been here since august, if you have any questions let me know.

have fun at urinary tract infection school :lol:

So does this mean in only fifteen months, you are a certified mechanic? How much time is involved in the MSAT program?

I graduated that school November '06...Looks like they haven't bought any new cars since then...

I also took Ford FACT, and after graduating went to Orlando for the Mercedes-Benz MSAT.

You are dead on: perfect attendance, pay attention, dont act stupid, show respect, and take notes...you will cruise on through.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

After the 15 months I will have more than enough knowledge to pass the ASE test, the MSAT programs I believe are 19-21 weeks long.

My question is when do you find out your schedule. Do they assign you class times or when do I pick what time my day starts. I would perfer the early class. so I can be out of class at 1pm or roughly the afternoon.

The MB MSAT is 16 weeks long, very accelerated...Ford is 15 weeks, 5 phases.

I believe you have an orientation before your start date, correct? You get your room number for the first phase and AM or PM schedule. If you want morning and they give you PM, you go to whoever is in charge, tell em you got a PM job or car-pull with someone in the morning...they will switch you to morning.

Your first class will most likely be Basic Engines, then most likely basic electric...where you go from there is unknown, they got rid of a set schedule for everything...so you may go to advanced electric, or fuel & ignition, hot rod 1 or 3, anything. As a heads up, your first 3 days or so i believe they start you out with "Jump Start." Its silly but can be fun, keep a positive attitude about you, there will be guys there complaining constantly about the rules and blah blah blah...don't be one of them. Remember you are paying to be there, take as much with you as possible.

exactly, the first 2-3 days you will be in the auditorium doint what the call "jump start". its kinda boring, just pretty much get to know whta class your in and just watch little movies and they talk about the school.

my schedule was

basic engine-phase 1
manual power trains- phase 6
brakes- phase 7
undercar-phase 28
basic electrical- phase 17
electrical technology- phase 22
auto tranny- phase 9
climate control- phase 8
fuel and ignitions- phase 4
fuel an emissions- phase 5
advanced electrical diag.- phase 36


this is and idea on how your sechdule could be the only thing for sure is you will have phase 4 and 5 before you have 36.

just stay focused and have fun you should learn alot

heard it was alot od crap... been there twice...

You heard it, or expericened it for your self? Because someone may say something that isnt true, or who ever you heard that from could have been one of those kids who didnt take the school like a student and they just made stuff up.