<p>My question is if there is a website where many Cu students visit to help pick a professor for the specific class. It is a little early for me to ask; however, I would like to be familiar with the diff. professors for the classes I will need to choose.</p>
<p>this was given on a post two years ago.</p>
<p>CULPA</a> - Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability</p>
<p>don't flame, its a sincere question and yes it is months in advanced...thats just how i work when I am bored.</p>
<p>I dont know if there is anything specifically for columbia but I know that if you will go to ratemyprofessor.com, they have reviews of many professors, from many different universities. I think its a good website.</p>
<p>For Columbia, culpa is more comprehensive and has more information than ratemyprofessors.com Almost all students still check culpa.info for their professor and class reviews, although now there's a new website in development called columbiaclasses.com that tries to integrate reviews with schedule building. You need to be a Columbia student to access the latter however.</p>
<p>I used ratemyprofessor this year for a new teacher with no culpa history. In my case, the professor taught at UCLA before columbia so I saw one review of him.</p>
<p>^^CULPA can be really helpful--there have been times when I had no choice but to take a particular class because of scheduling conflicts even though the professor sucked, so I almost always knew what i was getting into :) It cusions the blow.</p>
<p>On the flip side, some professors weren't as bad as some students made them out to be</p>
<p>thank you all very much ill just bookmark it and look through the core profs</p>
<p>well, that's sorta a waste of your time since you don't get to choose your core profs. You're either assigned to a section (i.e. lit hum, UW...) or you pick a class and time and whoever shows up is the one teaching the course.</p>