When registering for classes, students always have questions about whom the best professors are, who gives the easiest exams, who gives an inch on deadlines and who gives a yard.
To help answer all these questions, the World Wide Web has given us a resource: ratemyprofessors.com.
This website is designed to assist students in learning about professors before they register for their classes.
Often times, students submit most ratings around and after finals time; the most viewings occur right before registration time.
“I use ratemyprofessors.com because I want to see what students in the past have thought about the professors, whether they be positive or negative responses,” said Sarah Killingsworth, a Secondary Education major.
“There have been times when there were many classes open and I didn’t know the professors; I looked to ratemyprofessors.com to see what students thought.”
This website offers more than just professor ratings.
“What I like about ratemyprofessors.com is that you can also find the ratings for different schools, which may have a hand in narrowing down school options,” said an anonymous male transfer student.
Students are sometimes concerned on whether or not it is it the perfect resource. One student felt as though ratemyprofessors.com had steered her in the wrong direction.
“One time I trusted ratemyprofessors.com, got in the class and disagreed with the results,” said Rachel Mowbray, a Junior majoring in Biology.
“The website said the professor was really difficult and referred to the class as un-passable. When I got to the class, I really liked him and enjoyed the class,” she said.
Ultimately students listen to their advisers for registration suggestions.
“The double-side of it is that I did have an experience when the professor was as bad as the website had said, and my adviser also subtly warned me against taking the professor. I took him anyway; I recommend you listen to your adviser more than ratemyprofessors.com,” said an anonymous female student.
As far as ratemyprofessors.com is concerned, advice from students tends to be the same all around: take it with a grain of salt.
