<p>The site is controversial and students I know either use it religiously or never look to it. How do you feel about the site and if there's something you dislike about it, how would you improve it?</p>
<p>Only used it last Spring. Couldn’t use it in the fall since I picked my classes last minute. I found the site to be extremely helpful. There are always going to be good and bad reviews of every teacher, but if the good outway the bad by a large margin then you can assume the teacher is pretty good. I used it to help me pick my professors in the spring and found every review to be accurate once i’d taken the class. I’m using it again now to pick my teachers for the upcoming fall term and i’d reccomend it to my friends.</p>
<p>I’ve been in classes where the professor has a great rating but are actually really terrible and I’ve had professors that I’ve liked who have terrible ratings so it can be pretty subjective.</p>
<p>It is a pretty useful resource most of the time. The quality of a professor makes or breaks a course. Sure sometimes I will like a professor that got bad reviews on ratemyprofessor, but most of the time the reviews are pretty much on par.</p>
<p>Right when I got my schedule, I looked this website up to see how my professors were. I could only find 2 of the professors listed -_- Oh well. In my experience, it wasn’t that useful.</p>
<p>For intro classes I found a lot of my professors and found most that in general they were pretty accurate of how I found the professors. However I am increasingly finding that professors are not on there as I take higher level courses.</p>
<p>A lot of times my professors aren’t on it for some reason. But overall I do like it. I tend to care about when the class is/my schedule more than the quality of the prof however, so I usually just pick my classes how I want them and then look at Rate My Professors to see who I wound up with, instead of choosing classes based on the reviews.</p>
<p>I find that this site is either a hit or miss. There are times when the reviews are mostly accurate, but the negative reviews tend to be quite inaccurate, as they’re usually written by slackers who complain about the workload, tests, or not doing well in the course.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people use it to feel out the workload as well. I personally don’t really care about how my professor is and I’m not looking for that info when I’m going on Rate My Professors. I’m usually looking at how hard the class is so I can feel out how much time I’m going to have to put into it.</p>
<p>What I find interesting on there is how there are reviews on a professor saying they’re awesome, great teacher, good class, etc. and then there are others on the same prof saying they’re horrible, difficult, never take the class. So contradictory. I have to think that those negative views are written by students who don’t want to do any work, and that if you do the work, the class would be just fine.</p>
<p>In high school I was a B student. First year of college I finished with a 3.93 because of RMP.</p>
<p>I’m required to take some courses outside of my major and often they’re just a huge time wastes so it helps me find the really easy ones.</p>
<p>I like it. Ratemyprofessors is helpful-when you are paying like $3, 000 for an expensive class, you’d better be getting your money’s worth.
My university takes this a step further and we have internal evaluations for every class that students must either fill out or opt out of before seeing their grades. Very helpful and I learned my lesson from this. One time I got a professor with negative evaluations, but I ignored those and ended up hating her class. Now I use them almost religiously.</p>
<p>it can really depend. sometimes it is accurate. though sometimes the negative reviews can be written by people who got bad grades then out of anger and spite they write a negative review</p>
<p>You have your bitter reviewers and you have your spot on reviewers. However, from my experience, when multiple students said good things about a professor, I found it to be true. But still, nonetheless, the reviews should be taken with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Never failed me.</p>
<p>Some inconsistency though.</p>
<p>If you see a ton of people saying the same thing, look out!</p>
<p>Yeah, I kinda look at it for giggles. I don’t take the reviews too seriously; I just ask my friends who’ve had the profs before.</p>
<p>It’s only failed me once and I still use it every semester. You can often judge the student by how grammatically correct or thorough their review is.</p>
<p>For the most part, the reviews are spot on. Others may disagree but there have been classes where I slacked off for an easy A while my friends worked there tails off only to drop the class or end up with a D. This is where ratemyprofessors.com can be helpful because students can let you know how difficult a course is and what the professors level of expectations are.</p>
<p>In short, most of the time a professor can make or break you…</p>
<p>I use it to get a good idea of what the professor/class is going to be like. I prefer to have some fore-knowledge as to what’s going to happen the next semester.
You kinda do have to take it with a grain of salt though. I registered for a class with a professor who had overwhelmingly positive reviews. I got to the class only to find out the teacher didn’t speak English and her class was full of internationals that also couldn’t speak the language.<br>
I made sure I looked up my professor for my upcoming American Government class too. I know some professors can get carried away with their own political views and taint the class with them. The reviews didn’t say anything about that, so HOPEFULLY he doesn’t:)</p>