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Juana Sanchez
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The thing I love about Professor Sanchez is that she is the best at making concepts easy to understand: (directly from 02/20/2015 lecture) SANCHEZ: So, would you say that the people that are in the ‘college or higher’ group are independent of the people that are in the ‘high school or lower’ group? Do you think they are independent? Yes or no? Be, be courageous. STUDENT: (shy) Yes. SANCHEZ: Yes, yes. That’s it. Yeah. No, they are not. They are independent, right? No. They are not independent. Right? What did you say. Yes or no. No. You said yes they are independent, or yes they are not? STUDENT: Independent. SANCHEZ: Yes. They are independent. No. Yes. They are not independent, okay? They are not independent. I mean, sorry. Yes. They are independent. Fuck this class.
The thing I love about Professor Sanchez is that she is the best at making concepts easy to understand: (directly from 02/20/2015 lecture) SANCHEZ: So, would you say that the people that are in the ‘college or higher’ group are independent of the people that are in the ‘high school or lower’ group? Do you think they are independent? Yes or no? Be, be courageous. STUDENT: (shy) Yes. SANCHEZ: Yes, yes. That’s it. Yeah. No, they are not. They are independent, right? No. They are not independent. Right? What did you say. Yes or no. No. You said yes they are independent, or yes they are not? STUDENT: Independent. SANCHEZ: Yes. They are independent. No. Yes. They are not independent, okay? They are not independent. I mean, sorry. Yes. They are independent. Fuck this class.
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Looking for an easy A? Then take this class. Professor Sanchez's lectures are absolutely useless, but luckily I had taken Math 3c the quarter before so I knew a lot of the material going in. She's not the best professor, but she makes things really easy for you. ONLINE midterm and final. Let me repeat that: THE MIDTERM AND FINAL ARE ONLINE. Open book, open note. Sure, the weekly online homework and quizzes are annoying and time-consuming, but they're not difficult at all. Pearson is actually really helpful and you can learn the material by using that website rather than attending lecture. This class also doesn't use a clicker; she takes attendance by randomly calling out names to answer questions. She usually only calls out 9-10 names AT MOST, so if you have to skip lecture, don't get too worked up about it. I would REALLY recommend this stats class over the others, because you can pretty much bullshit right through it, while the others will probably require you to actually LEARN the material.
Looking for an easy A? Then take this class. Professor Sanchez's lectures are absolutely useless, but luckily I had taken Math 3c the quarter before so I knew a lot of the material going in. She's not the best professor, but she makes things really easy for you. ONLINE midterm and final. Let me repeat that: THE MIDTERM AND FINAL ARE ONLINE. Open book, open note. Sure, the weekly online homework and quizzes are annoying and time-consuming, but they're not difficult at all. Pearson is actually really helpful and you can learn the material by using that website rather than attending lecture. This class also doesn't use a clicker; she takes attendance by randomly calling out names to answer questions. She usually only calls out 9-10 names AT MOST, so if you have to skip lecture, don't get too worked up about it. I would REALLY recommend this stats class over the others, because you can pretty much bullshit right through it, while the others will probably require you to actually LEARN the material.
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Professor Sanchez is extremely concerned about her students and her office hours are extremely flexible. Her class is not easy and there's plenty of work involved but the material is very straight forward and help is always there when you need it. The tests are not very difficult and she finds ways to help your grade (extra credit, etc). If you show up to all the lectures, labs, and discussions this class should be a cakewalk. Overall, extremely caring, energetic, and fair professor. Highly recommended!
Professor Sanchez is extremely concerned about her students and her office hours are extremely flexible. Her class is not easy and there's plenty of work involved but the material is very straight forward and help is always there when you need it. The tests are not very difficult and she finds ways to help your grade (extra credit, etc). If you show up to all the lectures, labs, and discussions this class should be a cakewalk. Overall, extremely caring, energetic, and fair professor. Highly recommended!
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If you don't like going to class which I don't this class is lame, because if you don't make it you loose stupid participation points from lectures and its idiotic. I highly suggest not taking this professor if you don't go to class, her lectures are pointless and I have to go for the participation, which I never get because its always on some random day I don't go. Overall easy class, just do all the tedious requirements to do well, doesn't test ability, it tests stamina to not quit on pointless tasks, which is harder in my opinion than ability.
If you don't like going to class which I don't this class is lame, because if you don't make it you loose stupid participation points from lectures and its idiotic. I highly suggest not taking this professor if you don't go to class, her lectures are pointless and I have to go for the participation, which I never get because its always on some random day I don't go. Overall easy class, just do all the tedious requirements to do well, doesn't test ability, it tests stamina to not quit on pointless tasks, which is harder in my opinion than ability.
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Fall 2017 - Horrible horrible class. I had crippling anxiety and walking into this class tipped me over the edge. Her homeworks are overload and are carelessly created (full of mistakes and unclear directions) -- however because of this she is lenient on the grading. The group "quizzes" she assigned took an entire weekends worth of time and she ended up handing out A's to everyone that completed it. Contradicts herself a lot during lecture and has an attitude. For example in the beg of the quarter she would get mad at people who would just listen to her instead of taking notes, and she said "What are you guys doing? You guys should be typing and not just listening... you need to turn this in. Please get busy". Later on during the quarter when we are typing what she's typing, she yells "Can you guys please stop typing. Just listen.". Always lets us out late -- this is a problem because she opens up submission forms for in class participation activities when class is supposed to be dismissed and she talks about the weekends homework assignment after the class is supposed to end.... always end up being 5 minutes late to my next class. Last thing: Grading is very inconsistent. First 3 or so quizzes were grader rather rigorously. Average was a C, but towards the end the quiz averages were 90-95. Not sure whether this class was curved or raw scored, but if it was curved, this method makes it impossible to beat the class average and better your grade especially if you got off to a poor start. Tips for prof: End class on time and make more manageable homeworks. Also keep grading consistent please.
Fall 2017 - Horrible horrible class. I had crippling anxiety and walking into this class tipped me over the edge. Her homeworks are overload and are carelessly created (full of mistakes and unclear directions) -- however because of this she is lenient on the grading. The group "quizzes" she assigned took an entire weekends worth of time and she ended up handing out A's to everyone that completed it. Contradicts herself a lot during lecture and has an attitude. For example in the beg of the quarter she would get mad at people who would just listen to her instead of taking notes, and she said "What are you guys doing? You guys should be typing and not just listening... you need to turn this in. Please get busy". Later on during the quarter when we are typing what she's typing, she yells "Can you guys please stop typing. Just listen.". Always lets us out late -- this is a problem because she opens up submission forms for in class participation activities when class is supposed to be dismissed and she talks about the weekends homework assignment after the class is supposed to end.... always end up being 5 minutes late to my next class. Last thing: Grading is very inconsistent. First 3 or so quizzes were grader rather rigorously. Average was a C, but towards the end the quiz averages were 90-95. Not sure whether this class was curved or raw scored, but if it was curved, this method makes it impossible to beat the class average and better your grade especially if you got off to a poor start. Tips for prof: End class on time and make more manageable homeworks. Also keep grading consistent please.
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Winter 2020 - Professor Sanchez is infamous among the stats professor and I took her class knowing it was going to be a very rough experience. My expectation for her was low as yours will probably be, so surprisingly she did exceed my expectations. She is not as bad as other reviews describe as long as you follow her "rules". Some things to note: 1) She takes attendance every single class. Sometimes twice every class! Sometimes it's on a sign in sheet, sometimes she roll calls, sometimes she tells you to turn in a in class exercise, sometimes she calls on random student's name to answer a question, sometimes it's all of the above. 2) There are a lot of in class participation points throughout the quarter based on the correctness of your answer and you will most likely not be given much time for those. However she is nice enough to let you drop the lowest two. 3) She assigns official homework once every two weeks. BUT, there is often smaller, shorter take home exercises that she will assign in class(and she may or may not post on CCLE about it). So pay attention in class!! 4) There are two quizzes in addition to one midterm and one final. She takes these assessments very seriously and will write you many many many bullet points on rules to follow. FOLLOW THEM! DO NOT OPEN YOUR BACKPACK WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN THE EXAMINATION ROOM. One time she was very annoyed at a particular student who looked through his backpack inside the classroom before she handed out the assessment. She yelled at him in front of the whole class and order him to sit at the very front. 5) Homework needs to be turned in within 10 minutes of starting class or else she will begin to deduct points. Try to turn it in BEFORE CLASS BEGINS, or else your P(getting yelled at ^ humiliated) = 1. Despite my comments above, as long as you follow her rules and pay attention in class, have a decent TA, attend office hours, you will do just fine get at least a B+. She gets through a lot of material and you will feel like you've mastered a lot of material after her class. You learn a lot, more than other more "easy" stats 100a professors. And a bonus, she is quite entertaining, the way she talks, her sarcasm, and her occasional analogy of probability and life/death is quite accurate. She is very intimidating, but deep down, I believe Juana truly cares for her students. Shout out to Lenny for being an amazing TA!
Winter 2020 - Professor Sanchez is infamous among the stats professor and I took her class knowing it was going to be a very rough experience. My expectation for her was low as yours will probably be, so surprisingly she did exceed my expectations. She is not as bad as other reviews describe as long as you follow her "rules". Some things to note: 1) She takes attendance every single class. Sometimes twice every class! Sometimes it's on a sign in sheet, sometimes she roll calls, sometimes she tells you to turn in a in class exercise, sometimes she calls on random student's name to answer a question, sometimes it's all of the above. 2) There are a lot of in class participation points throughout the quarter based on the correctness of your answer and you will most likely not be given much time for those. However she is nice enough to let you drop the lowest two. 3) She assigns official homework once every two weeks. BUT, there is often smaller, shorter take home exercises that she will assign in class(and she may or may not post on CCLE about it). So pay attention in class!! 4) There are two quizzes in addition to one midterm and one final. She takes these assessments very seriously and will write you many many many bullet points on rules to follow. FOLLOW THEM! DO NOT OPEN YOUR BACKPACK WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN THE EXAMINATION ROOM. One time she was very annoyed at a particular student who looked through his backpack inside the classroom before she handed out the assessment. She yelled at him in front of the whole class and order him to sit at the very front. 5) Homework needs to be turned in within 10 minutes of starting class or else she will begin to deduct points. Try to turn it in BEFORE CLASS BEGINS, or else your P(getting yelled at ^ humiliated) = 1. Despite my comments above, as long as you follow her rules and pay attention in class, have a decent TA, attend office hours, you will do just fine get at least a B+. She gets through a lot of material and you will feel like you've mastered a lot of material after her class. You learn a lot, more than other more "easy" stats 100a professors. And a bonus, she is quite entertaining, the way she talks, her sarcasm, and her occasional analogy of probability and life/death is quite accurate. She is very intimidating, but deep down, I believe Juana truly cares for her students. Shout out to Lenny for being an amazing TA!
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Winter 2019 - Juana Sanchez is a really good professor, you just have to be polite and make her feel that you are involved in the class. Her exams are pretty long but the questions are not that hard. She provides very clear and concise study notes and the homework are helpful for the midterms and final. Some people complain that she gives them anxiety but don't take her too seriously, she is not mean, she just wants everyone to study the minimum required. She is actually pretty helpful in office hours, so don't hesitate to go and see her to ask questions about the class or homework. The material of the class is very interesting and really not that difficult overall.
Winter 2019 - Juana Sanchez is a really good professor, you just have to be polite and make her feel that you are involved in the class. Her exams are pretty long but the questions are not that hard. She provides very clear and concise study notes and the homework are helpful for the midterms and final. Some people complain that she gives them anxiety but don't take her too seriously, she is not mean, she just wants everyone to study the minimum required. She is actually pretty helpful in office hours, so don't hesitate to go and see her to ask questions about the class or homework. The material of the class is very interesting and really not that difficult overall.
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I've had her multiple times for multiple courses (100C, 102A). I don't understand why they still let her teach. She has plenty of positive reviews but I think they're largely because the people writing them are not stats majors. I can see that she would be a good professor if you'd like things really simple or generally aren't mathematically inclined. But that being said, if you would like your professors to speak to your level, be logical, make sense, or understand what they're teaching (especially at the undergraduate level), Juana is not for you. She's nice but she's infuriating. Her questions on homework and in tests don't make sense. Her notes aren't proofread (such as, she didn't run her code before class for 102A, so wasted a lot of time during class troubleshooting her R code). She may be great for Stats 10 (I wouldn't know, I didn't have her), but seriously, for upper division, wait a year and see if someone else is teaching it.
I've had her multiple times for multiple courses (100C, 102A). I don't understand why they still let her teach. She has plenty of positive reviews but I think they're largely because the people writing them are not stats majors. I can see that she would be a good professor if you'd like things really simple or generally aren't mathematically inclined. But that being said, if you would like your professors to speak to your level, be logical, make sense, or understand what they're teaching (especially at the undergraduate level), Juana is not for you. She's nice but she's infuriating. Her questions on homework and in tests don't make sense. Her notes aren't proofread (such as, she didn't run her code before class for 102A, so wasted a lot of time during class troubleshooting her R code). She may be great for Stats 10 (I wouldn't know, I didn't have her), but seriously, for upper division, wait a year and see if someone else is teaching it.
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First off LOL the picture posted on here is funny, I wouldn't take her if i could, almost every other Stats professor at ucla is better, not to say she's bad, the rest of the STATS prof are really good if you do take her, she might refer to a "book" a lot but dont bother reading it, anything she will test you on is based off her lecture notes memorize all her examples in class or on the lecture notes because her tests have problems from lecture and homework... almost all the problems on the tests you would have seen before Best of luck
First off LOL the picture posted on here is funny, I wouldn't take her if i could, almost every other Stats professor at ucla is better, not to say she's bad, the rest of the STATS prof are really good if you do take her, she might refer to a "book" a lot but dont bother reading it, anything she will test you on is based off her lecture notes memorize all her examples in class or on the lecture notes because her tests have problems from lecture and homework... almost all the problems on the tests you would have seen before Best of luck
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