Lincoln Technical Institute

I Went To This Piece Of Shit They Call «College». Worst Experience Ever! I Went For The Medical Assisting Program Back In August. 2013. The First Class Was Boring As Hell, & Had Nothing To Do With Medical Assisting.
My Other Classes Were Pretty Easy And Hands On. Some Of The Teachers Were Really Nice, & Others Were Really Bitchy, & Seemed Racist.
So There’s This Thing Called «Proficiencies» You Have To Take @ The Very End Of Your Last Class. Unfortunately, Mines Was Extended Because Nobody Ever Told Me About The 2 Open Labs, We Were To Complete. When, I Told Them Nobody Ever Brought This To My Attention. They Told Me «Oh, Well I Did Tell Your Class But You Weren’t There». This Happened On 2 Occasions. Nobody Went Out Of Their Way To Tell Me! So I Left After My Final, They Told Me To Study And Come Back In A Month To Do Proficiencies. OK, Cool! (This Was In April)
So, A Couple Of Days Later They Call Me And Say They Have Some Important Documents To Sign. I Go Up There & This Lady Wants Me To Sign A Leave Of Absence. She Put That It Was For «Personal» Reasons When Damn Well It Was Not. She Also Put That It Was From April-​The End Of June.
OK, So I Go In A Month Later To Do My Proficiencies, I Pass With A 95. Now I’m Suppose To Start Externship!
I Didn’t Start Externship Til About 2 Weeks Ago. This Nibert Chick, In charge Of Externship Was On Bs, When I Told Her I Needed To Go On Externship. I Told Her She Needed To Get My Stuff Done, Or Else I Will Be Contacting Her Boss, Bored Of Education & The State & She Will Be Hearing From My Lawyer If Nothing Was Done By Monday!
She Then Replied Back Immediately, And Said That She Talked To Her Boss Already & And That If I Didnt Sign Another Leave Of Absence, She Was Going To Drop Me From The Program! OH, Hell Broke Loose!
I Said OK, My Attorney Will Be Contacting You Shortly. She Then Replied Back, Saying That I Can Start Externship Tomorrow, I Just Need To Fill Out Some Papers, Yada Yada Yada… She Came To My Job To Fill Out Papers With Me. I Told Her That I Cannot Work Everyday At That Sight & That Externship Was Going To Have To Work Around My Schedule. She Said That Was Fine.
I Went To Externship For A Week, Faxed All My Papers, Got A Confirmation Page, And The Next Week I Showed Up For 1 Day, And Then This Week She Emails Me Saying She Got None Of My Papers & I Never Went To Externship. And Because Of This She Threatened To Drop Me Again.
I Simply Replied Back And Said OK That’s Fine! :)
Now, My Lawsuit Is Being Processed & She Will Be Out Of Work When I’m Done!
Moral Of The Story Is, If You Like Giving Away Thousands Of Dollars Then Go Right Ahead & Come To This Shit Hole.
P. S. The School Has Nothing But Gang Bangers, Drug Dealers, Convicts & Sluts!

This School is such B.S. do yourself a favor and enroll in a nice community college it might take longer but bet you will learn more. Besides do you want to be in a place that 75 percent of ppl came out cook county don’t think so

Wow surprised that no one has written a review of this place! But then again after attending there 12 or so years ago maybe not! (started in Norridge the school then moved to this location) Seemed like half the students were illiterate in the first place!
So here’s the deal. I hated a traditional college. Too much free time to get off track, and it reminded me way to much of high school. But I knew I needed to do something since the warehouse job I was working wasn’t really cutting the mustard. I liked cars and office work never really appealed to me. Enter Lincoln Tech. I contacted the school (after seeing one of their thousands of commercials) and was quickly contacted by a school «guidance counselor». I went in and was given an test about what I wanted to do and talked about my long term plans. He learned I was currently enrolled in a community college and figured I was interested in a degree. I had just finished up a semester of school and had plans for the summer. My «guidance counselor» was very pushy about me starting at the beginning of next month. That should have been a red flag right there. But hey I was in my early 20’s and not used to the hard sell yet. He went on and on about how I would be pushing off making really good money and the way he made it sound I was going to be making 40K plus right out of school. He also implied that this was going to be a associate degree program. Well like I said he was trying the hard sell to start right away but I wasn’t giving up what was planned for summer for anything. I pushed it off and started that next September.
The first few days were OK. Though it was kinda obvious that a lot of my fellow students were high school drop outs and one couldn’t even read (he was sent to a tutor for a crash course in reading which he failed). Also a second red flag should have been a top student who was about to graduate came to talk to our class (all newbies start with the same class) about the «top gun» program which is basically a paid internship for your last 2 classes. Guess what this was the top of his class and he pretty much came out and said he was only earning 12.50 an hour.(the same salary he was going to still be making since they’d hired him to stay)
By the second or third class (each were 4 week classes for each automotive system and 2 that were supposed to get you used to working in a shop) it was pretty obvious they cared more about getting you in the front door than if you were learning or not. This is a for profit school people. They want your money nothing else. Plus I swear half of this kids were gang bangers. The bathrooms were covered in gang graffiti and once everyone thought the shop was going to erupt in violence when someone shouted «This school ain’t got no folks, it’s fulla Lords!» only to have about the half the shop start shouting out rival gang affiliations. Real classy.
Then the final thing and the reason for the 1 star rating, after completing 11 of the 13 classes to graduate I found this is nothing but a certificate. No degree. I wanted to go into the office and punch that «guidance counselor» (just a scumbag salesman) right in his lying fucking face. Stick with community schools that offer automotive classes. They’re a fraction of the cost and it’s as good or even better training. If I can get at least one kid not to go here it will be worth it.
On a side note, I worked as a auto tech for 3 years before injuring my back. I kept re-​injuring it and decided that was not the field for me. While I did work some service jobs at dealerships not working on cars, after 2007 I was laid off and took a job at a insurance company. I still have that job today. So guess what? I work in a office anyway. LOL.
Edit: looks like the school posted a couple of reviews implying people leaving bad reviews didn’t take their education seriously, had bad attendance, and didn’t graduate. Nice try!
A) I had a 3.5 GPA here
B) I had over 95% attendance,
C) I graduated and I had a job when I left.
I gave you a 1 star review because you lied. You gave me a line of bullshit to get me in the door. This was not a degree program. The money a apprentice mechanic makes is no where near what you said it would be. You’re liars and scumbags. Obviously I’m not the only one who thinks so.