<p>I can't believe I'm doing this considering I got scared away from CC after reading it once or twice and refused to register when I was actually going through the college process, but for some reason I felt like I had to plug for M&TSI because I feel like no one else will. Hahah.</p>
<p>It's absolutely freaking worth it. I went last summer and it was freaking awesome. You can read the M&T site for more details and our schedule from last year, but what really did it for me was the whole of the experience ... the whole program is really well structured and it pretty much has everything on both academic and the fun/exploratory side of it.</p>
<p>You really shouldn't go just to measure how "good" you are or to have something to put on your resume and try to use it to get you into college, because 1) Penn pretty much says outright that doing one of their programs won't cause them to favor you and 2) it's just so much more awesome-r if you approach it as if you're actually taking Penn classes. You DO get credit for it (one engineering c.u. I think), but the more valuable part of it is all the crap that you can write for your Why Penn or Why M&T essays after you go. My Why Penn essay came to me after I got lost the first night at M&TSI and started wandering around the campus aimlessly hahah. Moreover if you hate the program you'll know you don't want to go to Penn, haha.</p>
<p>It's worth it for the program, the people, and Penn, basically. I ended up applying (and am now going next year) to M&T because of M&TSI.</p>
<p>This post ended up containing no real concrete info about my experience last year. Oh well haha. Maybe I'll post some stories later.</p>
<p>P.S. Workload isn't that bad. 9 AM classes, which get pushed later and later as the wks get on. The labs take the longest (There was a bioE one and a physics [circuits] one ... Can't remember if there was a third). Case studies for your business classes every few days. Final project (you design and develop a go-to-market plan for a technologically innovative product that you come up with and present it to a board) with a team.</p>
<p>P.P.S. Too bad Professor Weber will be gone :(</p>
<p>P.P.P.S For any of the M&TSIers from last year, this is Willy and the WriteNow is still the best product ever.</p>