Before enrolling -- Check prof RATINGS

srparent15
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:04:40 +0000

It’s so interesting this whole thing just came up especially in talking about Rate my professor and legitimate ratings etc. one of my daughters is in a highly regarded honors program. She is in a class that she can’t stand. The professor all semester has given assignments due around 5pm on Fridays, which is a day they don’t have class and basically assumes no one in the course has anything else they’re doing on Fridays either. It was by far my daughter’s least favorite class and her one complaint about the Professor was always how picky she was and how peer things were graded. My daughter appealed her first one because there was a huge discrepancy between the two peer graders grades, the TA didn’t provide any comments event though they were told there would be comments, and the lower peer grader didn’t follow (or read the rubric correctly) in seeing what was allowed to be done which is why they took points off. Anyway she appealed and didn’t get it back for over two weeks. In the interim another assignment was due and only after that one was turned in was something additional explained about the grading rubric so my daughter would’ve have a clearer understanding of what she missed on the first one if they didn’t wait so long to grade her appeal. Anyway when she got it back, the response was so snarky. It was basically, yeah you’re right but we could’ve taken off for this instead but we decided not to and we’re leaving your grade the same. She was so annoyed.

She wound up doing decent on later assignments because she knew the key was in reading the rubric etc. Others not so much so. Well they had a huge group presentation due this past Monday. Yep right after Thanksgiving. Then yesterday she bashes the class telling them the avg was a B and they’ll get the grades ag night. So…that must have been it. Because about 10 students went and literally ripped her a new one on RMP. There was one post from October and then a lot of prior year posts all similar. Treats you like a 13 year old yada yada. My daughter said she felt bad because it was rather harsh about the professor but everything about the course itself was true. Lots of busywork. Non empathetic professor. Etc.

So yeah while you need to take these with a grain of salt. The gist is generally true.

Oh and the avg grade on the final project was an A- not a B so that was even more bizarre that she told her class that.

Best place to learn about professors is really to ask around and also Reddit is actually a good resource better than RMP usually.

Sorry for the long winded post. I thought it ironic considering I commented initially.