After reading the other reviews for her, I often felt the exact same about this particular professor. She rarely helps you get to the answer and she usually expects you to figure it out on your own. She is by far the most unconventional professor I have had here - this is especially true for the math/stats department that seems to be black and white. If you are good at math and reason, she will take you on an exhilarating ride through the material, only catch is you're the driver. She lets you figure it out for yourself before she helps you and this approached bettered me in more ways than expected. So even if you are good with math, find a buddy, and help each other (if you do not find one, your probability of suffering increases) navigate through her more "colorful" approach. If you do not like math (or being challenged in this way) avoid her at all costs.

She is by far the worst professor I have met. I do not understand how she is still a professor and a professor at such a great university. First off, she is disorganized and does not care about her students. She does not care about teaching students. She only gives out packets that contain the lecture slides and expects each student to memorize and fully understand the material by themselves. She does not teach at all and if she does teach, she just repeats whatever it says on the lecture notes she passed out. She assigns homework every week and expects the students to show the entire class how to do the problems rather than her teach it to the class. When a student asks a question in class of why the answer to a problem is that to her, all she basically says is that "because that is the answer." She does not explain why that is the answer. Also if a student asks any question in class, she answers in a condescending way and makes it look like the student is just lacking. What is also bad is that she doesn't even teach us how to do the problems, she expects us to have fully understood how to do the problems by ourselves. She just keeps on giving out homework, quizzes, and lecture notes every week and expects us to know how to do everything without her ever teaching us. Whenever a student gives her feedback on her teaching or a way that can help her teach the class better, she does not care and answers in a condescending manner of basically no thank you. In addition, for one of the days, she had to film her lecture because she said the department wanted to find out ways of improving her teaching and she, no joke, stated along the lines, while about to film, "I don't get why these teachers are so crazed about teaching." Having her has caused me to feel extremely depressed and miserable every day. Every student I have talked to in the class feels exactly the same.

Absolutely, by far, the worst professor I've ever had here at UCLA and that is not an overstatement by any means. Seriously, how does she still have a job teaching major-level classes at an elite university when all of the reviews on here say pretty much the same thing as me?!?

Probably the worst professor in the Statistics department. Mean, pride, selfish, and uncaring to students. Enjoying to do 'class activities' which she thought funny but not really so. Avoid her if you can. Strong accent and she would not answer your questions even if you have courtesy and appointment.

So this professor is not bad, she is by far the worst. If you have anxiety, or depression do yourself a favor and stay away. She doesn't care about her students sucess and definitely does not care if you understand the material. Her grading is very bias.

She's the only professor who assigns your seat in exam. Overall not a hard class and you can learn something useful, no matter what's your major.

If there was a zero on the scale for helpfulness I would have put that. Sanchez just doesn't seem to care about her students or the material. I waited the whole quarter, praying that she would finally inspire me.........but alas, not once. The TA (bless her soul) and the textbook taught me this course.

Professor Sanchez knows what she's talking about, and if you pay attention to her lectures you'll learn all the material you need to know.

Unfortunately, her lectures are impossible to pay attention to, and knowing the material isn't nearly enough to pass her exams. She screams at students and docks points for extremely minor violations of her arbitrary, poorly-explained rules regarding student behavior during exams. Her exams largely test your ability to do calculus while you're being screamed at.

The first midterm is very easy, and the second midterm and the final are hard and there isn't nearly enough time to finish. She constantly insisted that the class wasn't going to be on a curve, but I think she did anyways because I got a B according to her syllabus but she gave me an A-. Not that I'm complaining lol.

The material isn't super hard but she is the worst. She's unhelpful, rude, and impossible to follow. So if you get stuck with anything you have to teach it to yourself

Sanchez is honestly a very good teacher! She puts material in a very structured and clear way, and is very keen on which concepts are most important for future statisticians. Her lectures are better than reading the textbook because she knows what points to stress, and provides plenty of examples and practice questions to back them up. For example, she will drill all the major distributions into your head, and you don't even need to touch a textbook.

However, where she deserves criticisms is her analretentive classroom policies. She has an extremely strict cheating policy, to the point that innocent mistakes will be construed as cheating. Drop an eraser on the ground, or sit at a right handed desk when you're left handed (as happened to me) and she will get extremely angry, or even penalize you. No talking in class. (which is not a bad thing to be honest). No excuses for missing exams. Don't be late for class. Etc.

I feel like students unfairly give her the "devil teacher" title just because of her classroom policies. In reality she is a really good introductory stats teacher and will help students have a great statistics foundation.