If you want to be completely oblivious to what is going on in lecture, be given a snarky comment when asking questions, and enjoy huge curves to save your butt and grade then Schwab is your guy! He is the most awful professor I have had here at App. He can not teach, and doesn't really care. I would try avoiding him at all costs.

Schwab managed to confuse me on things I already understood. He HATES when you ask questions. He is very rude and his lectures are impossible to understand. I struggled and made a C. He is awful, dont take.

I took Chemistry my very first semester with Schwab, and it was awful. He is very monotone and his lectures seem to last forever. At the end of the semester, my grade was two tenths of a point from being a B so I emailed him asking for any slight extra credit to which he never responded. I get not giving the opportunity just provide a response.

Worst teacher I've ever had the displeasure of learning (or not learning) from. Does not offer any explanation for anything he teaches. If you ask a question he will embarrass you in front of everyone. He is rude, unprofessional, and has to curve EVERY assignment by 30+points because no one can pass learning from him. DO NOT TAKE!

He's terrible at teaching... every time I ask a question it he can't explain it in a different way and says "I just said that". Class feels stupid but I always go anyway. There is online homework before every class and like 4 tests and multiple quizzes which make up the final grade. Definitely would not recommend him.

The most condescending professor I've ever had. Class was spent going in math circles that usually wasted an hour. Does not follow structure of class offered at other schools. He acted like we were dumb for not inherently understanding quantum mechanics. He made up the tests the morning of and then solved them while we took it.

Mr. Schwab seems nice and loves chemistry. HOWEVER, he does not teach well for people who arent very familiar with chemistry. His lectures fall behind with sapling homework. Also, every chem class gets a lead tutor and he doesnt seem to think they matter like most professors. Good luck being caught up in chem 2 if you have him

Dr. Schwab is probably the most unapproachable professor I've had. This class is the "writing in discipline", but he only gave feedback on 2 lab reports before the semester was over. Very ineffective communicator and educator. Pretty proud of my C. Even though I worked super hard, he did not grade fairly.

Schwab is one of those professors that will lecture and lecture and go on forever and don't care if you know it or not... one time in class he didn't know the answer to a problem and he ASKED SIRI! I cannot make this up. If you have the chance to take him... RUN.. don't look back because if you look back... you're gonna fail. PERIODDT

Terrible professor. The worst in the Chem department. No effective feedback until last week of class! He didnt appear to know subject well.

Schwab is one of those professors that you really like or you really do not like. He genuinely does not care whether or not you know the material or not AND he makes you stay after exams so he can lecture... AFTER AN EXAM. No need to ask for help, he will just repeat the same thing over and over gain and visibly get frustrated that you don't get it

He is bad at teaching and doesn't take time to explain things like he should.

By far the worst instructor I have ever had in my entire academic career. Does not care if you know the material, class averages for quizzes were extremely low and he doesn't acknowledge that students don't understand the material, just slaps a curve on and gives an exam on the same material the next class period. Worst in the chem department.

Horrible. Awful. Horrendous. Every bad adjective you can think of. Does not care about students or their understanding of a topic. Gets visibly annoyed if you dont understand something. Goes very quickly in class and quizzes and tests are very heavy with not enough time allotted.

Dr. Schwab was obviously very knowledgable about what he was teaching. However, he was an awful professor and did not do a good job at all of explaining difficult topics. He relied heavily on homework and chem101 to teach you material. Exams and quizzes felt overwhelming due to math heavy questions and not enough time allotted. avoid if possible

Hated coming to this class. He made topics a million times harder than they needed to be and did not explain difficult topics nearly enough. He would begin example problems and then not complete them, which made topics even more confusing. I recommend investing in Chegg if you need to take Schwab because that is the only way I learned material.

Hardest class of my life. He barely explained anything in the lectures and the lectures never aligned with the homework or tests. It is so hard for no reason. I spent countless hours outside of class trying to learn material because he wouldn't teach it. He has to curve everything heavily (a 40 point curve on time) because everyone fails

Terrible professor overall. Expects you to come into lecture knowing material most people were never taught. There is homework given every night. Quizzes given almost every week. Would highly recommend trying to get a different professor.

Literally just reads the information in the slides. Good lectures but extremely fast pace with absolutely no leeway with grading.

Chemistry is a hard subject I know, but I used to be so engaged and interested in this subject until I took his class. I would feel like I understood everything, then get to the test or quizzes and they're so much different. You never really learn anything, the only reason you pass is due to such high curves. For example, I made a 30 and curved 70.

Chemistry is already a difficult class to begin with, and Professor Schwab makes it so much harder. Barely does example problems, and only reads off slides. Only looks at things through the perspective of someone who has studied chem for years, not a new learner. Do not recommend taking him. I'm sure he's a good person, just not a good teacher.

ive attended half of the lectures and still have a B only because of the lead sessions. All of the exams are curved otherwise the entire class would fail. what he teaches in class is hardly relevant to whats on the exams. i could skip every class and go to the lead session the night before the exam and pass with a B or even an A.

His writing is completely illegible, he breezes through things without letting people ask questions or check for understanding, and he's also just not helpful or personable. Makes an already hard class even harder. Only good thing is that everything is heavily curved. Please somebody else start teaching this class.

I had Schwab 5 years ago for gen chem 2 and I still think about how traumatic this class was. I just had to come back and see if this poor excuse for a teacher was still here and it seems he is. BEWARE. I still have trauma from this god awful class years later.

This is one of the worst classes I have ever taken. He explains nothing and acts as if everything should be common sense; there is no point in asking questions, as he will say he has already explained it. The only bright side is the curve, which is the only way anyone will pass. Do not take him, even if he is your only choice

the fact that this man is still employed amazes me. on the day of our final exam, he had only graded 2 out of the 8 post lab assignments, meaning no one knew their updated grade. he is condescending anytime you ask ANY type of question about the class. if time travel were real i would go back in time and prevent him from ever getting hired at app.