Juana Sanchez
Department of Statistics
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1.7
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Easiness 2.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 1.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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March 3, 2015

My honest unbiased feedback. I will try to refrain from letting emotion dictate my review.

Professor Sanchez is not precisely fluent in English. This is an issue because she makes typos on exams, homework, slides, and in general will ask a question in a way that is hard for the student to answer because she is really trying to ask something else. I get the feeling she really doesn't care about students grades, and another major gripe is her exams. The class time is only 50minutes, and yet she gives us 20-25 questions, and spends the first 10 or so mins berating the class for not being able to follow her, and Im not being mean here, completely useless instructions. For example, if you are right handed, you cannot sit in a left handed desk. Combined with the fact that she spaces rows and students, you really only have 40mins for 20-25 questions (2mins/question) after students find their seats. She doesn't curve, there is a ton of HW and busy work, and she does treat it like a high school class. Like other reviewers, I recommend a different professor because UCLA does have some great ones, and they won't bombard you with hw or can teach you better. She does say funny stuff though.

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Dec. 11, 2012

Everything people said is true. My only beef with Sanchez is her ridiculous attendance and participation policy. But that may also be because I must have been the only person in the history of her class to have been called on 3 times from her random class selection program. Seriously, 200+ students and I got chosen 3 times.

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June 27, 2012

She's not wonderful, she's not terrible. Anybody who says otherwise is either completely blind and deaf or just a complainer.

I went into her class, having read through all of these Bruinwalk evaluations, and found her more pleasant than expected. If you take the class with a sense of humor, she's really amusing. Sure, she makes mistakes on her powerpoints and her attendance rules are so high school, but it's not a deal-breaker. She has her own sense of humor, and because I don't go in there to pay attention, I find her jokes really amusing to pass the time.

The class isn't difficult. I ended up with an A-. I got a B on my first midterm, an A on my second midterm, and a C on my final. She doesn't make the class hard. Our second midterm and our final were both online. We have quizzes and homework that end up being a lot of busywork, but if you actually do them, it will really help keep your grade high. There's a project that takes about 1-2 hours to complete, and I easily got full marks on that.

Her lectures are pretty useless. You go for participation grades though. So I ended up doing most of my Italian homework during Stats lectures. And discussion sections start with a quiz, so after that, feel free to get up and leave. The weekly labs can be almost fully completed during lab section (if you don't waste time listening to the TA), or you can leave after the sign-in sheet is passed around. It's a really easy class to bullshit your way through if you know basic statistics - which surprisingly enough, most people actually didn't, so they had to pay attention during lectures, ask TA questions, and help their own learning out a little. The good thing about having like, 50 questions a week to do on Pearson for homework, is that that is literally how I learned everything. That and the textbook.

I would take this professor again. She won't leave you with a lasting impression, so don't expect to be inspired. Anticipate her style of teaching, tell yourself to ctfo, learn everything from Pearson practice homework problems (my TA Xian was utter crap), and you'll do fine.

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June 20, 2012

This class started out being very simple, and it remained so until at least the first midterm. This was mainly because you didn't need the professor to understand the material. However, around the middle of the course, the material does get quite difficult. I was saved by my TA from doing poorly-his labs and his grading on my final project (despite the fact that I half-assed it) saved my grade. Doing all of the homework also raised my grade, along with doing well on the quizzes (which are easy if you had do the homework). The good thing about this class is that you can rack up a lot of points in the beginning and that will really help carry you if all you care about is a grade. The professor will not help you at all however, you must rely on the website (MyPearson got me an A- no joke) and your TA. I ended up getting a D on the final but still got an A- in the class. Take the busy work seriously!

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June 19, 2012

Mrs. Sanchez is easily the worst professor I've had at UCLA. She runs her class like a high school class, where she takes attendance and calls on people during lecture. It's completely pointless and wastes everyone's time because most of the time, people aren't in class or get the answer wrong. Luckily for me, I already knew the material and most of the class was review. If I didn't have this knowledge, I would have struggled because her lectures are not informative in any way. The tests and homeworks are pretty easy, but the final was relatively difficult and everyone that I knew did poorly on it. I got an A-, but I would highly recommend avoiding this class at all costs.

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Aug. 25, 2010

This is the worst professor I've ever had at UCLA, and I just graduated last June with an overall GPA of 3.7. I attended every class, completed every assignment, but still had trouble understanding the material, especially because her lectures were so awful. Every other word out of her mouth is 'eh!?', and she can hardly pass for a kind person. The only redeeming feature were her TAs-- Miles Chen is amazing, and he is the only reason why I stayed as long as I did. I ended up dropping after the midterm, which was tricky and filled with material that we had only covered during the previous lecture. Regardless, I ended up blue petitioning to concurrently enroll into the same course at a local community college where I found an excellent professor-- one much better than Sanchez.

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Aug. 7, 2010

Why anyone would write negative reviews about her is beyond me. I came into the class fearing that I wouldn't learn anything, but contrary to the reviews on Bruinwalk, she's a very good professor! She's very concerned for our learning, and quite receptive to questions. She's approachable, so there's no reason why anyone would find her hard to talk to. If you put in the time and effort to do the hw and study for the quizzes/tests, you should have no problem doing well in her class. Her one pet peeve is talking during lecture (she stopped us 6-7 times per lecture to tell people to shut up.).

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June 27, 2009

If you have to take stats, I greatly recommend Sanchez. She is a funny and caring professor and probably requires the least amount of work. You don't even need a stats book, and the hw are the quizzes, so you don't have to do textbook problems. The midterms and finals are really easy, and somtimes pulled straight from lecture and quiz problems.

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Aug. 6, 2007

DO NOT take this class during the summer because there's way to much material to learn within 6 weeks and she's crazy! The only good thing about this course, she curved everyone's grade at the end...Bad part everyone basically got a C.

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June 26, 2007

I've never taken stats before but this class wasn't that bad. sanchez is not a very good professor though...i went to a few lectures in the beginning and just got frustrated! lol But its pretty easy if you just follow the book, do the homework, and pay attn to the quizes. Matilda is also an amazing TA! The midterm is really easy...basically verbatim from the hw and quizes...but be prepared because the final is a lot harder! I got 100% on my midterm, but the final must have brought me down a bit cuz i got an A- in the class. Also, if you're taking 100a, keep your stats 10 book. Its a good review and intro (on stuff not covered in stats 10) to the 100a concepts.

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March 3, 2015

My honest unbiased feedback. I will try to refrain from letting emotion dictate my review.

Professor Sanchez is not precisely fluent in English. This is an issue because she makes typos on exams, homework, slides, and in general will ask a question in a way that is hard for the student to answer because she is really trying to ask something else. I get the feeling she really doesn't care about students grades, and another major gripe is her exams. The class time is only 50minutes, and yet she gives us 20-25 questions, and spends the first 10 or so mins berating the class for not being able to follow her, and Im not being mean here, completely useless instructions. For example, if you are right handed, you cannot sit in a left handed desk. Combined with the fact that she spaces rows and students, you really only have 40mins for 20-25 questions (2mins/question) after students find their seats. She doesn't curve, there is a ton of HW and busy work, and she does treat it like a high school class. Like other reviewers, I recommend a different professor because UCLA does have some great ones, and they won't bombard you with hw or can teach you better. She does say funny stuff though.

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Dec. 11, 2012

Everything people said is true. My only beef with Sanchez is her ridiculous attendance and participation policy. But that may also be because I must have been the only person in the history of her class to have been called on 3 times from her random class selection program. Seriously, 200+ students and I got chosen 3 times.

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June 27, 2012

She's not wonderful, she's not terrible. Anybody who says otherwise is either completely blind and deaf or just a complainer.

I went into her class, having read through all of these Bruinwalk evaluations, and found her more pleasant than expected. If you take the class with a sense of humor, she's really amusing. Sure, she makes mistakes on her powerpoints and her attendance rules are so high school, but it's not a deal-breaker. She has her own sense of humor, and because I don't go in there to pay attention, I find her jokes really amusing to pass the time.

The class isn't difficult. I ended up with an A-. I got a B on my first midterm, an A on my second midterm, and a C on my final. She doesn't make the class hard. Our second midterm and our final were both online. We have quizzes and homework that end up being a lot of busywork, but if you actually do them, it will really help keep your grade high. There's a project that takes about 1-2 hours to complete, and I easily got full marks on that.

Her lectures are pretty useless. You go for participation grades though. So I ended up doing most of my Italian homework during Stats lectures. And discussion sections start with a quiz, so after that, feel free to get up and leave. The weekly labs can be almost fully completed during lab section (if you don't waste time listening to the TA), or you can leave after the sign-in sheet is passed around. It's a really easy class to bullshit your way through if you know basic statistics - which surprisingly enough, most people actually didn't, so they had to pay attention during lectures, ask TA questions, and help their own learning out a little. The good thing about having like, 50 questions a week to do on Pearson for homework, is that that is literally how I learned everything. That and the textbook.

I would take this professor again. She won't leave you with a lasting impression, so don't expect to be inspired. Anticipate her style of teaching, tell yourself to ctfo, learn everything from Pearson practice homework problems (my TA Xian was utter crap), and you'll do fine.

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June 20, 2012

This class started out being very simple, and it remained so until at least the first midterm. This was mainly because you didn't need the professor to understand the material. However, around the middle of the course, the material does get quite difficult. I was saved by my TA from doing poorly-his labs and his grading on my final project (despite the fact that I half-assed it) saved my grade. Doing all of the homework also raised my grade, along with doing well on the quizzes (which are easy if you had do the homework). The good thing about this class is that you can rack up a lot of points in the beginning and that will really help carry you if all you care about is a grade. The professor will not help you at all however, you must rely on the website (MyPearson got me an A- no joke) and your TA. I ended up getting a D on the final but still got an A- in the class. Take the busy work seriously!

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June 19, 2012

Mrs. Sanchez is easily the worst professor I've had at UCLA. She runs her class like a high school class, where she takes attendance and calls on people during lecture. It's completely pointless and wastes everyone's time because most of the time, people aren't in class or get the answer wrong. Luckily for me, I already knew the material and most of the class was review. If I didn't have this knowledge, I would have struggled because her lectures are not informative in any way. The tests and homeworks are pretty easy, but the final was relatively difficult and everyone that I knew did poorly on it. I got an A-, but I would highly recommend avoiding this class at all costs.

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Aug. 25, 2010

This is the worst professor I've ever had at UCLA, and I just graduated last June with an overall GPA of 3.7. I attended every class, completed every assignment, but still had trouble understanding the material, especially because her lectures were so awful. Every other word out of her mouth is 'eh!?', and she can hardly pass for a kind person. The only redeeming feature were her TAs-- Miles Chen is amazing, and he is the only reason why I stayed as long as I did. I ended up dropping after the midterm, which was tricky and filled with material that we had only covered during the previous lecture. Regardless, I ended up blue petitioning to concurrently enroll into the same course at a local community college where I found an excellent professor-- one much better than Sanchez.

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Aug. 7, 2010

Why anyone would write negative reviews about her is beyond me. I came into the class fearing that I wouldn't learn anything, but contrary to the reviews on Bruinwalk, she's a very good professor! She's very concerned for our learning, and quite receptive to questions. She's approachable, so there's no reason why anyone would find her hard to talk to. If you put in the time and effort to do the hw and study for the quizzes/tests, you should have no problem doing well in her class. Her one pet peeve is talking during lecture (she stopped us 6-7 times per lecture to tell people to shut up.).

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June 27, 2009

If you have to take stats, I greatly recommend Sanchez. She is a funny and caring professor and probably requires the least amount of work. You don't even need a stats book, and the hw are the quizzes, so you don't have to do textbook problems. The midterms and finals are really easy, and somtimes pulled straight from lecture and quiz problems.

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Aug. 6, 2007

DO NOT take this class during the summer because there's way to much material to learn within 6 weeks and she's crazy! The only good thing about this course, she curved everyone's grade at the end...Bad part everyone basically got a C.

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June 26, 2007

I've never taken stats before but this class wasn't that bad. sanchez is not a very good professor though...i went to a few lectures in the beginning and just got frustrated! lol But its pretty easy if you just follow the book, do the homework, and pay attn to the quizes. Matilda is also an amazing TA! The midterm is really easy...basically verbatim from the hw and quizes...but be prepared because the final is a lot harder! I got 100% on my midterm, but the final must have brought me down a bit cuz i got an A- in the class. Also, if you're taking 100a, keep your stats 10 book. Its a good review and intro (on stuff not covered in stats 10) to the 100a concepts.

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1.7
Overall Rating
Based on 41 Users
Easiness 2.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 1.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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