<p>Any site I can go to to get good fair professors? I am leaving in a week and would like to have an idea of who are the good ones and bad ones. I don’t want to be stuck with some hard left anti-bush "intellectual". I don’t want to sit there, pay 40 grand a year listing to how dumb people are for voting for him. Its not that i have anything against professors whom i have different political views, i just want a fair professor. Reasonable people can come to reasonable disagreements.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, none of my math, science, or Greek professors (at BU) have ever bashed Bush. Of course, they haven't supported him either. Actually, they talked about math, science, and Greek. Shocking, isn't it?</p>
<p>Seriously, what kinds of courses are you thinking of taking? In the vast majority, professors simply won't talk about their political views because they have enough trouble just getting through the curriculum. But this might be an actual consideration if you're taking a modern history or political science class.</p>
<p>purpletransience, i glad you go there. I can ask you questions :)</p>
<p>I'm thinking of taking all my humanities/english courses for this spring semester then taking math related subjects this upcoming fall.</p>
<p>As for ratemyprofessor.com. There are many student based rating sites out there; is that one pretty accurate. I visited studentreview.com and gave boston university low marks, so im a bit skeptical about those student based sites. They are not scientific and very subjective.. thanks.</p>
<p>BTW Purpletransience, how do you pay for BU? The only financial aid i got was 1000 dollars worth of loans... the money i saved up is only good for 2 years, after that i guess ill be washing dishes for 2 years then returning to finish out my degree.</p>
<p>And second question, there any republicans at BU? :)</p>
<p>i'm actually not a full-time student, so i won't be able to help you much in terms of social or financial questions. i can tell you that republicans don't make up a huge percentage of the campus (though in SMG or economics courses this is probably different), but BU is such a large place that you'll surely be able to find republicans, if that's something important to you.</p>
<p>your plan, i have to say, is probably a bad idea. with lower-level courses it will logistically work out, but higher-level math and english courses are generally only offered either 1st or 2nd term, not both. thus, you should probably get used to having both kinds of courses at the same time. now, if you're only doing humanities/english (or math) courses to fulfill distribution requirements, that's another matter, and then i guess you can get them over with but that would be one awful semester.</p>
<p>ratemyprofessor.com isn't great. i've seen well-ranked profs who are awful and awfully-ranked profs who are well, pretty good. certainly, if any professor has mixed ratings, it's totally a toss-up. however, professors who get exclusively good ratings are probably actually pretty good.</p>
<p>first term, this probably isn't going to be much of an issue, because you have to take all your prereqs, and you can't really choose who teaches those. after that, you should try talking to people who have had classes with professors, who can give you recommendations. i could tell you, for example, that bob devaney and claudio rebbi are GREAT and that timothy kohl is AWFUL. and it never hurts to sit in on a class. if you're choosing between too not-too-popular classes, chances are you'll be able to switch around during the first couple of weeks if you change your mind. (or you can probably register for both and then drop the one you like less.)</p>