Reviews of professor Hao Wu

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Makes the class way harder than it needs to be; nit-picky grader; expects students to understand everything at a deep level; 3 tests (cumulative final); 10 HW assignments; 10 take home quizzes; have to put in a lot of effort to do well; helpful in office hours; he wants students to do well but also has too high of expectations of non-STEM students

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super willing to meet with you and really cares about your conceptual understanding of statistics. Lecture can be slightly hard to follow at times but if you take good notes and ask questions you will be fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Hao emphasizes on concepts more than calculation and explores meaning behind statistical methods. Take him if you are genuinely interested in statistics; avoid if you are just trying to get requirements out of the way by memorizing some equations and getting an A. He has a little bit of an accent, but it's definitely understandable.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I guess class is easy since it's Peabody. However, assignments almost every day, he doesn't teach very clearly and complicates concepts further than he needs to. If you take this class, I would recommend watching Youtube videos. Exams are hard, but probably easier than A&S. Might not be the best stats professor but is not horrible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Bro this class was not good. Wu Hao is a pretty good teacher who cares about what he teaches but he's really challenging for literally an intro stats class. The classes are really boring, the exams are pretty hard, and overall it's just an unnecessarily hard class for intro stats. He's very logistics-oriented too. Idk man not my favorite

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wu seems like a decent enough guy, and to his credit, he does try to help his students. However, in every other area, he falls abysmally short of what is expected. Woefully disorganized, baffling exam grading criteria, and lectures with all the value and vivacity of a mildly interesting piece of driftwood. Overall, pretty meh.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Wu was a very caring and knowledgeable professor who cares a lot about student feedback. He has made good changes to his class. He is very hard working and has spent a lot of time working on his notes and videos to make sure they are of high quality. His class also focuses more on conceptual material. I highly recommend this professor.