<p>I'd just like for current Columbia students to refute/approve of the comments on the website. Most of the recent reviews are bitterly negative. This, along with Columbia's rating on ratemyprofessor is making me seriously reconsider applying ED. </p>
<p>I know that these are all free websites where anyone can say whatever they want, but this holds true for all of the other colleges on there. Why is Columbia bashed so much?</p>
<p>I caution everyone not to make important life decisions based on websites that disguise anonymous, agenda-driven posts as “information” (including this one). Having said that, my son, a Columbia College junior, is ecstatic with his academic and social experience. Talk to people, not words on a screen, to learn about Columbia.</p>
<p>Everyone here uses culpa.info to review their professors. It’s a comprehensive, Columbia-centric, course-specific site and it’s generally very helpful. CULPA exists to help fellow Columbians pick classes, and since we have a resource like that I think only the people who purely want to vent, rather than give constructive comments, will end up using Ratemyprofessor.</p>
<p>So I recommend that you check out CULPA to get a better idea of professor ratings here.</p>
<p>It’s actually an unfortunate fact of life that Columbia uses its own (awesome) CULPA site instead of the “standard” rate my professor. It means jackass ratings idiots who try to mine rate my prof for info will never find anything, so it’s like a divide by zero error for Columbia. As such, take anything that uses it with an even bigger grain of salt than you might otherwise.</p>
<p>Agree, use CULPA, that’s the standard Columbia rating website. Teaching quality is highly dependent on the department. The engineering school has significantly worse teaching than the Economics, Physics, and Chemistry Departments as well as the Core classes, so I’d definitely caution doing engineering if you’re looking for engaging professors who convey information clearly. Be prepared to teach yourself everything…</p>