<p>How many of you use/used rate my professors and how accurate has it been for you? I used it at the community college I went to and was just wondering if it was reliable at universities. I used it when picking classes at the CC but want to know if it's a good idea to use at a university.</p>
<p>Rate My Professor worked out OK for me at my university. The student’s opinions are usually accurate about the teachers but there’s sometimes the people that write two entirely different responses that contradict each other in every way possible. I don’t find it quite as good as MyEdu because MyEdu has much more but I still use Rate My Professor in addition to MyEdu. Incase you are not famliiar with MyEdu, it also tells you reports that students write about the teacher and it says the grade distribution of the professor for each class. I have found the grade distribution on MyEdu to be an accurate representation so far.</p>
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<p>I often use the site to look up professors while choosing classes and leave reviews at the end of the semester. I’ve found most of the feedback to be fairly accurate. If a professor has several reviews that all have similar comments/criticism, they’re likely to be true. You can also usually tell if the review is comprehensive and fair or if it’s just petty complaints from a disgruntled student. </p>
<p>Of course, everyone is different, and you never know how you’ll like a professor’s teaching style until you’ve taken a class with him or her. But it’s not a bad resource, and it’s helped me find/avoid professors.</p>
<p>68% of the ratings are accurate. :-)</p>
<p>Usually it’s pretty accurate. I’d also pay attention to the grammar of the posters, though. The posters that say how horrible the professor is but don’t use any punctuation and spell everything wrong aren’t that reliable.</p>
<p>The ratings mean nothing. The comments are quite useful though.</p>
<p>RMP saved my GPA during freshman year. I originally was assigned crappy professors but I switched out right away. Best move I made so far in college. My roommate had both professors that I was assigned to and he struggled all semester while I had no problem with my professors. It is a very helpful tool that college students should use and contribute to. At the end of every semester I also rank my professors and go into as much detail as I can about tests, textbook use, helpfulness, etc.</p>
<p>I used it when I did dual enrollment in high school, and it was very helpful (if sometimes exaggerated). Now I use my university’s service that is very similar, and the reviews seem a little more accurate.</p>
<p>Can be useful but read with a critical eye. I suspect more dissatisfied students post reviews than people who were in the middle - who I don’t think post much. So I think ratings are skewed by people with strong negative feelings. (next would be strong positive) Look at comments for actual class rather than just as a whole…for instance, I noticed in looking at D2 math teachers that many got bad reviews from 100 level classes but good reviews from students in 300, 400 or 500 level classes. Some great professors have trouble communicating with beginning students but really know their stuff.</p>
<p>And please skip over any one who knocks a teacher because they take tests questions from book (you have to read!) or take attendance. Sadly there are some lazy students out there!</p>
<p>Once you get to school the best thing is to find someone similar to you in study skills and personality who has had the teachers and can tell you more about how you’ll like them. Facebook boards for your major at your school are good for this.</p>
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<p>Funny, people I hear from usually see that as a positive. At least the book is available to you for review purposes, while the depths of the professor’s brain generally aren’t, unless you take very good lecture notes and know how to take advantage of office hours.</p>
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<p>This is a downside for me, not because I think expecting attendance is unreasonable, but because it indicates that either A) the professor has a low opinion of his students, or B) the class is one most people would choose not to attend if given the choice. Good professors don’t say “attendance is mandatory”, they say “passing is optional”.</p>
<p>The main value of ratemyprofessors is looking at why the unhappy people were unhappy, and why the happy people were happy. If the happy people say “knows his stuff, sets high standards, serious about his subject” while the unhappy students say “too hard, ridiculous tests, boo hoo I failed :(” then you are looking at a great professor for a subject in your major field, but maybe one to avoid for gen eds if you dislike that subject. Similarly with other types of comments: it’s not whether people likes the professor or not, but why they had the opinions they had.</p>
<p>I hate that the site is rarely updated often, students forget to leave up recent info on the professors.</p>