<p>Did anyone else find this site helpful? It really helped me picking out my professors since they were all what the majority of the posts said they were. Would you say that this is a very helpful tool?</p>
<p>It’s incredibly helpful. If you pick classes without checking this website, you could be making a huge mistake.</p>
<p>It helps you avoid the ones that are really terrible, so just for that, I think it’s helpful.</p>
<p>The thing is, people tend to only rate professors whom they really love or really hate. So the ones who are really terrible get lots of hate on RMP.</p>
<p>But if there’s only a few posts, it’s not completely trustworthy.</p>
<p>Extremely helpful! I’ve used it in registering for the past semesters, and I always find it mostly accurate. If nothing else, use it to avoid the awful professors.</p>
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<p>I made that mistake.</p>
<p>It’s not a bad website I think. So far I’ve left a review of every regular teacher I’ve had, but for some classes you’re not going to find too many ratings.</p>
<p>I wish I had it in England!</p>
<p>Like people say, it’s mainly useful for avoiding the really bad ones.</p>
<p>It can be pretty misleading. One of my favorite professors this past semester had a really poor rating. I personally think he’s one of the best teachers that I’ve had. His main ‘fault’ is that he does not give out As for substandard work.</p>
<p>@HarryJones Are you absurd? That website is used to find professors who give As. Hence you get a low rating if you don’t have a lot of As. No one cares about the personality of the professor. I’m trying to get a job. Not trying to find a buddy.</p>
<p>@Columbia09 Also use myedu.com. It shows you the percentage of As in every class and gives reviews from the people who took the class. It also has a schedule planner and GPA calculator. Super useful website. That and ratemyprofessor.com will get you that A you need! :D</p>
<p>My school has its own website for these ratings, but I did dual enrollment at a state college for two years in high school, so I used RMP a lot. It was almost always helpful, though mainly just for how interesting lectures were and how easy the class was.</p>
<p>There are a few bad ones, but anyone who types in all caps or resorts to personal insults can typically be discounted.</p>
<p>i ultimately base all of my class choices on ratemyprofessors reviews.</p>
<p>I don’t use this website because my school has their own version of it called “wakeratings.com.” I use that all the time; unfortunately, sometimes some professors don’t have any, so now I have no clue what they might be like. </p>
<p>I always make sure to rate my professors after I have them so that I can help others like me too.</p>
<p>Sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it isn’t. I took a History class over the summer with a professor whom people said was good, but I found him boring because all he ever did was read off the Powerpoint slides. Then again, he was the only professor teaching that particular History course.</p>
<p>RateMyProfessor can be a hit or a miss. I usually use it to avoid the really bad professors who every one hates. But I also look at the fact that sometimes these people might be not as smart (sorry for saying so, but going into a 101 class at a state school as an honors student, you don’t get the cream of the crop.) So their ratings might be a little off. </p>
<p>Usually I use RMP for every class I’m about to register for, just to make sure I’m not ending up with the worst professor in the university. And if I see multiple professors for the same class (but at different times) I compare the ratings. It usually works.</p>
<p>I don’t use rmp, as Cal Poly has polyratings (Which I do use, but with a grain of salt. Some of my favorite professors have had horrible ratings on there)</p>
<p>Generally it’s not the ratings themselves, but the text reviews that matter. A professor might have very low reviews yet still be fine, but the comments can alert you to potential problems (like say, the professor doesn’t speak english well and thus his tests are prone to confusing ambiguity).</p>
<p>I have found it really accurate at time, not so much other times. </p>
<p>Many students seem to rate a professor based solely on how much they liked, or didn’t like a subject. So even if the professor was great the student might give a bad review just because they thought the subject was boring or didn’t do well in the class. Also, many professors are just rated high if their class is easy and professors with hard classes get low reviews. This has frustrated me at times because some challenging professors deserve more respect than I think they get.</p>
<p>Generally I’ve found the reviews to fit with my own impressions, but you do know that professors can - and often do - go on and post anonymous ratings of themselves of their friends, right? So take it with the proverbial grain of salt!</p>
<p>" @HarryJones Are you absurd? That website is used to find professors who give As. Hence you get a low rating if you don’t have a lot of As. No one cares about the personality of the professor. I’m trying to get a job. Not trying to find a buddy."</p>
<p>As someone who actually likes learning and really enjoys personable teachers, that’s so…depressing.</p>
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I award you +5 points.</p>