Pick a Prof
Right before registration, I was sent a letter about a website called Pick a Prof. For $10 a year or $5 for 4 months, it allows you to look at reviews other students have written about professors at your university. They offer additional services, which I haven’t seen in any other websites.
They have grade histories, a schedule planner, student reviews, and textbook pricing and exchange. The website does have a lot of information about the services they offer, but unfortunately, you can’t try anything out until you buy a subscription. It was very helpful when scheduling my classes because I wanted to make sure I could find time to work and study without being overloaded. I didn’t use the professor reviews this time because as freshmen, we were limited because of our first-year seminars and our advisers helped register us during orientation.
It also has a Facebook application that helps to find classes with your friends. The professor reviews are collected online, but also from end of semester evaluations. Grade histories are straight from university records, so they’re not biased in any way. I also love the schedule planner. Sometimes it’s hard to make sure you get the best times for classes and make sure you’re not going to mess yourself up. They’re planner gives you a view of what you can take when, how long it will last and make sure you have room for work, sports, etc.
Some universities even pay for you to use this service. My mom’s school, for example, lets you have free access to Pick a Prof if you can validate your school’s email.
Yeah, Pick-a-Prof WAS cool but now they changed to MyEdu and they SUCK! They charged the $10 on my credit card and did not give me an account. I contact them via email and got a fast response. The person asked for some info and I gave it to them, then on the next reply said that there was no account under my name or email address. I informed the person that the charge was on my account. I asked for them to create and account for, since I paid for it, or for them to give me a refund. SO FAR NO RESPONSE WHATSOEVER!!! I’ve emailed them twice since and NOTHING! DON’T TRUST THEM!!
I’ve been using MyEdu since it has been up and I haven’t had any problems with it at all. I actually like it better than the old website.
I loved pickaprof and love MyEdu. The new layout is clean and the site really offers way more information than it did before. I haven’t had any account issues like yall seem to have had. This is the site to use if you want to make the best decisions and in turn make your life a lot easier.