But once I figured it out, it was all similar afterwards. It took a lot of trial and error to learn how apples work. Thats all I had going into the Apple side. You should be familiar with basic circuits and how individual components actually work.

I did a lot of electronic work in the military but that was a whole different ball game. I repair anything that says apple on it at the component level. I can tell you that you don't need a degree to learn how to do this. Perhaps I'm just not efficient, but it takes me quite a while to diagnose problem (that steps generally easy), find a replacement, replace and test. I repair component-level issues as a hobby. Granted, they only get like 20% of the materials, but it's something I suppose. Apple takes those parts back and 'attempts' to reclaim the materials in a recycling process.

It's not cost effective for 99.9% of the repair centers out there. The reason is component-level PCB repairs aren't consistently reliable. Apple requires non-working parts to be pulled and replaced. They do NOT authorize component level repairs. Regardless, repairs taught were at the level of replacing entire parts (MLB, DC-IN BOARDS, etc.). Apple froze the program over a year ago except to universities. Apple is no longer accepting applications to be a self-servicing account. Hi there: Just FYI - I was apart of the self-servicing account base.