March 11, 2010

DYK Tip: The ULIMATE KEY to Picking Classes at Western


In choosing my courses I came across this AMAZINGGGG site that the university should clearly tell people about (but I've never heard about it before....). So, here it is, the USC working for the students --> This will save your life (or your GPA?).

Its like a legit ratemyprofessor.com, essentially, the online postings of those course evaluations we do at the end of every class. It has every prof and course taught since the evaluations started (1994?).

If you have to choose between 2 sections, its helpful in selecting a good prof... and also I've been choosing a lot of electives based on prof scores, but course scores are too difficult to find now that the university changed the numbering system recently, but it is stilll possible if you're willing to put in the effort

Oh! also look for % of class attended (it will show you if the course has mandatory attendance/participation or not) and expected grade (lots of high expectations will tell you that this is likely an easy course to get high marks in)

Good luck to everyone, and I hope this helps somebody... it sure helped me! (I wish I knew about it in first year!!!)