AI Rate Professor

Ethnic Studies

Marisol Rivera

ES1 · ES3 · ANTH4 · 21 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.2/5
Take again
23.81%
Difficulty
3.8

The decision

Avoid unless you have massive free time and can tolerate heavy weekly writing with .

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerOverwhelming workloadSlow or missing gradingTough on pointsOnline group projectsPolarizing reviews
  • Recent students warn not to take and .
  • Even when grades end as A or B, the effort and stress often feel unfair for the units.
  • A minority praise her passion and care, but the dominant experience is burnout and frustration.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

34/100

Some students still earn As, but only after heavy weekly writing and ; many feel stuck.

Online students describe hard-won grades with ; .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Content plus volume of readings, hour-long lectures, and frequent papers make the course feel hard and draining.

Challenge is driven mainly by online workload intensity; limited in-person sample still reports heavy load.

Is attendance flexible?

Optional

72/100

, so the pain is assignments rather than seat time.

Both formats mostly report attendance not required; a .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

24/100

Would-take-again is low and many recent .

Online warnings dominate; and one strong yes.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

28/100

Many call her a and grades .

Format shift

Online is mostly harsh or ; one in-person student said she was overall easy.

Workload

Overwhelming

12/100

Students report 4x normal work, weekly multi-hour tasks, sudden long papers, and constant Sunday deadlines.

Format shift

Overwhelming load is strongest online; in person still describes excess assignments.

Teaching experience

Poor

30/100

A few students love her passion and kindness, but many and help is limited.

Format shift

Online teaching reputation is largely poor lately; older online and one in-person review are warmer.

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

18/100

, and group work with few quizzes or tests to recover.

Format shift

Both formats are assignment-heavy; online adds group projects that students hate.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

4 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

some and easy grading.

Main concern

quizzes or tests.

What students said

“Gave so .”
ES1
“Gave excess of assignments and so their is less hope of increasing grade average”
ES1
“She does give a lot of work and reading but the and she's an .”
ES3

Remote format

Online

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

endless weekly work, long lectures, late grades, and .

Main concern

and unable to improve.

What students said

“SO MUCH WORK insane. End of May and still haven't got grades back since February.”
ES3
“ ! My grade was posted with 26 UNGRADED assignments.”
Anth4
“the ...in an ONLINE CLASS.”
Anth4

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Assessment is paper and project heavy rather than classic proctored exams, but the volume and .

Few traditional examsHeavy papersGroup projectsQuizzes sometimes ungradedLong lectures

Assessment risk

Standard

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In person, grades also rest on many assignments with .

Excess assignmentsFew quizzes or testsHeavy reading
“ so their is less hope of increasing grade average i felt lost in her class barley passed with a B.”
ES1
“Professor assigns so ”
ES1

Online

Online assessment is weekly multi-hour work, papers, and group projects; .

So many papersGroup project finalWeekly multi-hour assignmentsDelayed grading
“Two days before last day of class and she opened an 8 page paper due.”
ES3
“Her quizzes state that you will receive 3 attempts, but she never grades them so you will never get this opportunity.”
Anth4

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ ! My grade was posted with 26 UNGRADED assignments.”

Voice snapshots generated from 21 reviews, highlighting workload, grading delays, and split praise. Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

30/100

“Her and didn't instruct us in any other way.”

📚 Workload

12/100

“She gives 4x the amount of work of any professor I have ever had.”

⚖️

28/100

“when she does get around to grading assignments she is very particular and .”

👎 Recommendation

24/100

“ .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • She's very passionate about what she teaches
  • I ADORE her.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • Gave so
  • still haven't got grades back since February
  • Not a

Theme 3

⚠️ About Online Experience

  • the ...in an ONLINE CLASS
  • 26 UNGRADED assignments
  • Worse class I have ever had.

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

21

Recent reviews read by the AI

21

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

21 reviews with strong recent negative clustering online; consistency on workload and .

Inside 21 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 54
4 out of 52
3 out of 51
2 out of 51
1 out of 513

Course coverage

ES313 reviews
Anth44 reviews
ES14 reviews

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

20 reported outcomes

A range

7

A+ 1 · A 5 · A- 1

B range

6

B+ 4 · B 2

C range

1

C 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

6

Audit/No Grade 1 · Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Not sure yet 4