Reviews of professor Sara Wiest

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Takes off points even for correct answers in exams because her top students had better answers. Grades are entirely up to her discretion. If she likes you, shell grade you better. She is inexperienced in teaching and youll have to teach yourself the course.  If you have questions she has answers to, she will tell you to research it yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The bar for this class is set really high. 94% is an A and she said in her first class that the average for the course would be a C. If you're good enough you will probably get a B.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Visiting Prof at Union College. I loved taking her class. Loved the structure. She's super straightforward in her exams and lectures. Exams are easy if you just take detailed notes in class, there are no trick questions. Strict but always fair. Super nice and helpful during office hours. Mock Congress was also really fun :)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Visiting Professor at Union College, Sara Wiest is the worst professor at this school.  spent hours on homework assignments that she did not teach us in class. Exams were much different from the study guides and much harder,making students feel not prepared, extremely condescending , sometimes swearing purposely does not want kids to do well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She's very nice once you get to know her. The exams are straight from the powerpoint, people don't like reading them again so they sometimes don't do well. Also very chill and flexible when helping students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is by far the worst professor I've ever met, when you ask her questions she makes you feel stupid and never answer the question you have, instead she just simply tells you to go figure out yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She grades really tough, you need to raise your hands every class to get the full participation grade which is impossible. I did not learn a lot from this course, I read a lot, but I guess I will still get a B in this class. Please if you have any other choices not chose her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible Professor. Very demeaning. Her lectures are equally terrible. All she does is read off a sheet of paper that has nothing to do with her PowerPoints. Avoid taking a class with her at all costs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wiest is great! She is funny in class and does a good job explaining difficult material. She always went out of her way to help me when I asked for help! This class really sparked my interest in environmental policy!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hands down the worst Professor I have ever encountered. Her lectures were terrible. She would talk very fast and read off of a sheet of paper that had nothing to do with her PowerPoints. She is extremely unprofessional and a miserable person.