Are professor or class ratings available?

<p>I have seen the ratemyprofessor site, but some schools have their own sites for this info. Anything at Pitt to evaluate profs or classes?</p>

<p>I wish, or I would be looking through that site right now. Although I sometimes do not trust ratemyproffesor, it all depends on whether they got a good grade or not.</p>

<p>Yeah, and people who post there are often those who are upset about their prof or grade and are looking for a place to complain. </p>

<p>Darn, I can't believe that Pitt doesn't have one of these things!</p>

<p>I have always been told that proffessors who expect the most out of their students are always the ones you appreciate AFTER you graduate. So it's really a matter of perspectives then!</p>

<p>BTW, are you going to be a freshman at Pitt? I'm going to be a freshman bioengineer.</p>

<p>Oops, no I'm a parent. Sorry for the confusion! The reason I asked is that my son had some good profs last year and some not so good ones. I wish he could avoid any really catastrophic choices! But my son is also in engineering, so maybe we could have our own class rating of sorts.</p>

<p>Actually, there is a ratemyprofessors.com for pitt, and let me tell you, its GREAT! I have found out the best teachers for a subject, the easiest, hardest, worst, etc.
It helps ALOT, and I totally recommend you use it. I look up all my professors before I sign up to take the class with them.</p>

<p>Yeah I have to agree with neelesh, though I would suggest reading a few of the comments. Sometimes professors will have a lower score than they actually deserve because i find more angry students go on then just so so students</p>

<p>yeah, the students seem really bitter there..</p>

<p>I think most of my professors seem highly rated with the exception of Katherine Wolfe for Econ 0100. Do you folks know about this one?</p>

<p>I LOVED ratemyprofessors.com. It really helps.</p>

<p>My daughter just started her second semester at Pitt.</p>

<p>Sites like Ratemyprofessors seem totally irrelevant to her course selection experience. Everything goes through her advisor, or later, the drop-add office. Her advisor signed her up for a section of a course that meets in another county! She's had much trouble getting classes she needs/wants. Her experience isn't totally unusual for a freshman,at any university. . . . </p>

<p>At this point, picking a class based on others' opinions of a prof seems like a dream!</p>