I hate her. I knew that material, yet bombed her bloody tests. Schuuuuuuuuuuuuuuultz.

Could care less about you and whether you learn or not. Unfortunately there's little choice in who to take this class with. TA's seem incompetent.

In all my time being a student, I have not experienced a more arrogant, useless, and evil instructor as I did when I was in Colleen Schultz/Houlihan's class. It is a shame people like her are given a salary to teach. I want a refund.

She told me there was gonna be around 30 questions on the final...there ended up being 67 questions. She never went over any of the crap on the test either...:(

Not recommended for your own good ...

202 focuses mostly on memorization of formulas and random definitions. I expected to be able to actually understand stats, but she introduces things without any comment on meaning. Tests are putative and don't cover the material fairly. No textbook exists that teaches it "her" way so you have to rely on the awful notes and braindead TAs.

Terrible teacher. Overall she was not very helpful with regard to learning the material and tests are very hard.

worst teacher ever. she wants you to do poorly and her test reflect this. She was the first teacher I've ever had that actually curved grades so that they would hurt you. The most worthless woman in the world.

They really need to restructure this class. It is like a cattle call. Hope you have a good TA because Schultz won't teach you anything. She is an an absolutely horrible teacher.

Schultz is a completely awful professor. Do not take this class unless you really have to. I emailed her to ask about a test I took and it took four emails and two emails to the Econ department head before she replied. Additionally, it was incredibly snippy and condescending. Decent teacher; awful person.

She has a very weird calculator policy, you can only use the 1$ basic calculator. She uses numbers with 6 decimals in her problems to her delight) and you have to do all the calculations with that calculator so if you hit a wrong button by mistake, you have to start all over. I hated every second of her class: useless, boring and uninteresting.

just not a fun person at all. no technology allowed in class, no laptops no phones out, can't use camera phone to take picture of a PP slide.

Colleen does a poor job on accurately testing students for the subject matter learned in class. She generally carries herself with a poor attitude in class, and seems to be irritated when students ask questions. She does not appear to be passionate about teaching.

Colleen Schultz is easily the worst professor at the University of Illinois. It's a disgrace she's allowed to continue to teach. She doesn't explain anything, but magically expects you to know everything she never even mentioned to you on the test. Homework doesn't even help. Avoid her at all possible costs.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD! I wish I had taken Stats100 instead of this class

8 AM Quizzes

Many mistakes in homework and exams

Never have a teacher meaner than her

WORST PROFESSOR I HAVE EVER MET. It's like she is trying to trick her students in every possible way on purpose. First time homework due on 5AM? !No announcements and reminders at all about pop quizzes?! Tests have much more difficult content (even brand new stuff) than homeworks?! Take her Econ202class and you will understand "desperate". CNMB.

Her teaching is alright, she kind of rushes through everything. Her exams are a different level though. The material itself is moderate but it's as if she uses every sinew of her body to trick us. Also, she doesn't posts her powerpoints online and doesn't allow any use of electronics in her class. Welcome to the 21st century

Exams consist of ridiculously long calculations. Punch the wrong key on the calculator? Get the next five questions wrong! Lots of material was also tested of which we spent little on in class. Posted no resources/lectures slides online and prohibited pictures of her slides. She's clearly a professor who doesn't care about her students.

Awful professor!! Avoid her!

Puts trick questions on exams. Homework is far different than the exams. Grades harshly. Students are not allowed to have any electronic device in class for any reason other than the most basic calculator possible; this causes the vast amount of calculations required in the class to take an unnecessary amount of time.

She has a ridiculous rule about calculators that handicaps students from using technology that is readily available to them in their everyday lives for absolutely no reason. She may argue it is to help students understand what they are doing, but that is a ridiculous argument because the calculator is only as smart as the person using it....

All material learned in this class is very outdated and inefficient. She doesn't let her students use anything more than a five dollar calculator let alone excel. Don't bother going to class you'll be better off using that time to study the online lectures and HW. This class needs a curriculum change. Good Luck typing in those tedious numbers.

Unnecessarily difficult. Take stat 100 instead if possible

One of the worst professors I had. This class is more so how to use a very basic calculator rather than actually learning economics. You'll find yourself finding the class pretty easy, but hard exams due to her strict rules.

I'm not kidding this is the worst professor at University of Illinois and I've seen them all. She makes you use calculators from the stone age to try and trip you up every step of the way. What would take 5 minutes takes an hour with these brutal calculators. The lecture videos seem simple and then when the practice test come around you're screwed.

Terrible Exams. I learned a lot in class but the exams are unnecessarily hard. It will leave you feeling dumb. She does not know how to make an exam that is representative of what she taught in class.

The WORST professor! 1. She is the laziest teacher. she doesn't have office hour and wouldn't return your Email. she makes classes shorter and cancel many classes! she doesn't explain much on lecture. 2. She makes the trickiest exams with the her calculator's rule and tons of steps, especially on final 3. No help, no teach, just video watch

Material is offered on a "you either get it, or you don't" basis, as in the professor gives the impression of being bothered when asked to explain something differently. Questions on quizzes/tests/etc. are frequently vague or don't match the difficulty of what is presented in the lectures. She is also the only professor to give this class.

worst professor ever, dont take his class.

She's mean person and doesnt even care about teaching I think.

Shes easily the worst professor Ive ever had. Im still getting a B, but this professor wont ever reply to emails, explain anything clearly, or use an ounce of common sense. Some assignments are due at 5am, some classes we go over one sample problem for an hour, you cant use a laptop for notes but its a stats class, etc

Hoo boy, literally one of the worst professors I've ever had. She does not answer ANY emails, has no office hours, and often leaves the freaking lecture early, so all 200 students in lecture have to bother the TA's who sometimes don't know the answer either. Her class is poorly run, she isn't helpful at all aside from her videos. hated this class.

Extremely unorganized course. Professor doesn't answer questions thoroughly, she only refer us to the TA's. The TA's don't answer questions thoroughly either. The basic calculator rule is bad. There are no advantages of using a basic calculator vs a scientific calculator. Doesn't reply to emails. Doesn't even teach in lecture. Lots of extra credit

Easily the worst professor I've ever had. Her lecture videos are not helpful when it comes to the homework assignments and quizzes at all. She never responds to any emails and is just a horrible teacher. You're best bet is to go to your TAs office hours every week for hours to understand how to do the work.

she is unresponsive to emails & incredibly rude when she does respond. Given that this class was online, the majority of the questions (unanswered unfortunately) could be found on course hero/chegg/& similar sites. It seems like Professor Schultz copies & pastes her whole course, yet expects & looks down upon the slightest slack in her students.

lecture videos are bad, no time for exams (40 mins) 15 problems, no study guide,

schultz is rude, not understanding, everything for the class is online & its difficult math material

Midterms are ridiculous. Only simple calculator allowed and too less time. Grade doesn't reflect how good you are in stats but rather how fast you can do computations and without mistakes that excel can do within seconds

I don't think that teaching a class with a good amount of math through videos is a good idea. The calculators were pretty much useless, and the test was too fast-paced. If you can take STAT 100 instead, go that route.

Absolutely horrible class. For a class that can be substituted, it is so difficult. She goes out of her way to make the quizzes way more difficult than anything in class. She also removed the grades tab on Moodle. Also, you can't go back on the questions in the quiz. It is completely luck based. Just pray you get the difficult ones first.

Quizzes make the class horrid. Her online lectures honestly aren't too bad but they don't contain enough information for the quizzes. Her wording on quizzes is absolutely awful and you are not allowed to backtrack. She also seems to not care about technical difficulties on the quizzes either, so if your zoom recording messes up, too bad you get a 0

prepare to do a huge amount of difficult calculations without using TI, as well as a bunch of projects and case studies. A fun fact about her class is that she seldom taught lessons on lectures since all the courses can be accessed as online class which are also mandatory.

the course was extremely bad

The exams require answers with 4 decimals, and being a single decimal off means you miss the entire problem. She makes you buy a book (printed out powerpoint slides) for 3% of your grade. Lectures are useless since all learning is done by watching videos. She tries to make an easy stat class difficult for no reason.

Homework due first week of class and have to watch all the pre lectures before class which makes real lectures meaningless. Stupid rules too on attendances and homeworks. No clear instructions.

For Econ major, 202 is counted in your 30 hour major courses so it is mandatory.all the course materials and knowledge points are all online and she will not say a single word on class. And she will actually stop the course the prohibit students from taking photos of the slides, because she said nobody can use devices on class, which is ridiculous.

Easily the worst teacher I have had in my entire life. Has no respect for any of the students. Forces you to use a clunky, "simplified" calculator which makes actually doing homework and test problems near impossible. If you absolutely have to take this course, do it with another professor or try to subsitute it.

Don't take if you don't need to. Professor found out how to replace most of her work with covid era stuff, screams lazy. Online Exams with required invasive browser extension, most material taught through pre-lecture videos, actual lecture just 1-2 problems, inaccurate Moodle due dates, harsh grading, tedious rounding requirements. Save yourself

Don't listen to the description of this course, it is 100% online in a covid-era format, and the only thing you ever do in "class" is 2-3 easy example problems from the lecture she posts online. She is very rude to her students in class, not allowing them to use any electronics in class. Avoid this class and professor by all means necessary.

Worst professor ever. She gives very few examples that are not at all representative of what is asked from us on the homework. She'll also expect you to use an outdated, non-TI calculator for complex problems. Yet you'll still lose points for not rounding correctly. Also, no electronics in class, despite it being... 2023! Avoid her at all costs

There are many exams and all fill-in-the-blank questions, no step score, as long as the result is wrong is 0 points. lecture basically can not learn anything are self-learning, can only say is a piece of shit.

Very difficult and you could never see the grade until finished the final exam. That's awful. The professor ignores the student's emails and never reply them.

Let me put it this way, if you want to put yourself through misery, then take this class. Lecture slides give you minimal information for homework and exams. There are 6 exams throughout this course which is unheard of. Office hours are pointless b/c the TA's just read off of the cheat sheet and explain the homework to you. Don't take this class.

The exams are way harder than any of the homework or lecture quizzes. She doesn't lecture at all in class it's all COVID videos. She gives hardly any practice and the practice that she does give she doesn't give the answers. Awful teacher.

why she doesn't teach anything during the lecture time. i have to learn it all through the video from covid time?? so it's time killer. if you dont have enough time to spent on this course, skip it! using stat100 instead.

This is for those who want to take ECON484: STAY AWAY FROM THIS CLASS. She is awful. The exam is 72% and attendance and participation are 28%. You will NEVER know how she grades your attendance, which means she can do whatever she wants to your grade. Even if you get two 90s in your first midterm, useless, you still get a B. Horrible torture.

Econ 202 is a terrible class taught by a terrible professor and I got an A. Lectures are pointless. She doesn't respond to emails. Online tests are dumb for this because it only takes one small mistake to mess up the whole problem. It should be a test graded on work. You have to use the simplest calc that is horrible. It doesn't add to anything

Only THREE answer attempts allowed for those HUGE chunks of homework, NOT QUIZZES, and you will NEVER know which question u got wrong and you'll repeat the same problems OVER AND OVER again, trying to figure out which questions you got wrong until your head explodes and you can salvage a little bit of your GPA in these pathetic THREE ATTEMPTS.

Absolutely horrendous professor. In fact, worst teaching I have ever experienced PERIOD. Professor belittles and acts like god when explaining mean, median, and mode in class only to drop the most inconceivable word problems on the test asking you to find the coefficient of variation with bummy poverty calculator. STAY AWAY IF POSSIBLE.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND TAKING THE CLASS. SUCH AN AWFUL CLASS. This class is structured so that you fail no matter how hard you try. The professor doesn't convey anything important during the lectures and her presentation skills are sooo bad. This class is setup for your failure.

6 mid terms for a basic stats class is this department out of there mind?? They also on proctor U so every other Thursday she gives herself the day off. Want help? She does not have office hours. Tests are impossible. Does not lecture she does nothing. If you are seeing a positive review on this course, she probably wrote it herself.

I can not believe the econ department is still letting this class be taught by this women. Students are having mental breakdowns over a entry level course. She does not care about her students and enjoys putting students in a situation to fail. horrible does not even begin to say how my experience was this course.

uses covid-era videos as 'pre-lecture', 6 exams and only meets twice a week (she basically gives herself every 1/4 lectures off), no technology in class, required to use bummy calculator. exams are not partial credit questions for reasons against common sense. class is unnecessarily tedious in every regard. avoid if possible!

Class is set up horribly and the professor ignores her students. I had to reach out to her 3 different times about a technical problem during one of my exams that made me get a 0 and she ended up telling me to use one of the exam drops. I told her I had other exams I wanted to drop so she asked for my name and NetId and ghosted me

Classes were supposed to be moved from Moodle to Canvas. She just copy and pasted her Moodle link on canvas. When you do homework she doesn't even tell you what you got wrong. She's also just really rude to students. I was in class and saw a student on their laptop and she called them out to 300+ ppl and said "you're probably watching something."

Unfair grading practices

It's hilarious how much potential this class has to be fair yet isn't. I liked the online video format because it allowed me to revisit the material. There were 6 midterms, 2 drops, which I liked because you don't have to memorize as much. But the midterms were written UNFAIR. Got 1a wrong? The rest of 1 will be wrong too, bye bye 15% of your score

Literally high school stuff, no laptop or any other electronic devices in the lecture, HW requires calculating a lot of tedious but time-consuming stuff such as correlation coefficient by hand even in 21 century…… never would take this again

most redundant teaching method/class I've ever encountered. Lack of effort is notable from first week when directed to watch pre-recorded lectures online and purchase her textbook, which is simply screenshots of the online lectures for $50. Prof. Sun, Buckley or Bebczuk all more competent. Also, is she adding fake reviews on here? Econ dept tarnish

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!! She will show up late everyday and make you do all of the learning by yourself online. Not once did she show up and do her job of teaching. Lectures consist of 2-3 example problems that she barely explains. There are discussions, but they are NOT relevant to the class and what we are tested on.

Very mean and inflexible professor!!! She only allows us to use one unsophisticated calculator that only has few basic functions to calculate very complex statistical functions, which can be totally solved with a higher-tech calculator such as TI nsipre. This imposes much more unnecessary heavy workload on students. AND MOODLE is terrible!!

Don't take this class. She is nice and all but the class is 50 min and you don't learn anything. Also, the calculator is so unnecessary to buy. The tests are heavy and the material does not prepare you well. Don't take this class!!!!!

don't take this class. the homework is useless and because of it your grade drops. exams reflect what's going on in class but the majority you have to teach yourself. take stat 100 if you can instead

TAKE A DIFFERENT STAT CLASS IF POSSIBLE. The course content is not that difficult(basic stats), but the class is put together so incredibly bad that you have to try way too hard for a good grade in an INTRO stat class. If you get the mean or something basic wrong, the whole test is cooked. no partial credit. teacher, kinda mean, flipped classroom.

The materials itself are not too bad, but the way the class is set up for sure troubles a lot of people. Don't take this class unless you have to.

This is the worst class at UIUC. The material isn't hard but the structure is so bad. Everything graded is very tedious to do and they don't give any partial credit, so one misclick on the awful calculator they require you to use and you're cooked. You wont learn anything in lecture. The required book is literally slides printed out. Take Stat 100.

Such an unreasonable professor. I wouldn't take this class. Just take STAT 100.

Has no regard for mental health.

Not conceptually hard, but poorly structured. Long pre lectures, unclear grading on homework. You often don't know where you stand in the class until the final grades of the semester are posted.