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[quote=Anonymous]I did it online between my sophomore and junior year (summer 2021) and don't feel like it added anything of value to my life. The poster who said you need to take economics is wrong; I did not take econ until my senior year.

I remember almost nothing other than that the program was trying really really hard to make the students pro-free-market without teaching much actual economic theory; I learned a lot more of the latter in AP Econ. The book they paired with the course that you had to read if you wanted college credit was even more propagandistic than the online class, which at least tried to seem somewhat unbiased.

The students in the program had pretty good outcomes; all of the people I have on Instagram are attending T20s. It's probably correlation, not causation, though. I'm now an econ major in college and feel that a somewhat critical appraisal of economic theory actually made me more comfortable with the discipline at large; my micro professor's maxim of "All models are wrong, but some are useful" had a much bigger impact on the way I approach my work than anything I did in that week.

I imagine the experience is more enriching in person. I still get emails from FTE from time to time, but the follow-up programs are a little odd: why would you want to pay to do an internship? [/quote]

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