Reviews of professor Lan Liu

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course's standard is dramatically lowered by a bunch of idiots in the class. I wish this class is not mandatory, so that these people who are ill-prepared won't join and slow the whole class. should have been more advanced.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Lan is well prepared for the class. Unlike several STATS teachers I experienced before who use PowerPoint to guide students go through the whole classes, she writes everything on the blackboard and deducts math formulas very clearly. She has the ability to transfer very hard STATs/maths into simple logics to make students better understand.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really wanted to like her, she seems like a nice person (she let me turn something in late when I had technical issues). But, honestly her lectures are super fast paced. By the end, I just stopped watching them and looked at the notes instead. She finished a month early and instead going back to review, she just stopped lectures entirely.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Take Sara Algeri instead if you could. Liu lan is mean and arrogant. Stat 4052 is a great course and students deserve a better instructor. She tests on a least relevant topic on multinomial logit models. There are other more important topics we studied and she did not test on that. Not helpful and did not respect student.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures were pre-recorded and ended an entire month early. Concepts were not very well explained, and topics felt like they had little connection with each other. Test questions were vague, and feedback was equally vague. Going into our final, we hadn't even received our grades for our second midterm. Avoid. I took this course in the spring

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Beware on rateyourprofessor of rash down-voters, but not for Lan Liu: this was the least organized and worst taught class I've had during all my semesters at the U. Grades mostly on the final (which covered things not taught and not in the notes), finished the class a month early, and never answered emails even though the class was asynch-online.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took Prof. Liu for STAT 4051 in Spring 2021. She went through way too fast, fast to the point where the class ending a month early. Had very limited office hours, and slow to reply emails; getting help from her was virtually impossible. The horrendously terrible experience in this class has influenced my study in other stat class. Avoid Her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally the worst class experience I have had at the U. Terrible professor, no class structure, feels like a free-for-all. No textbook is used, good luck trying to teach yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Are you looking for a professor that isn't flexible whatsoever? One that fails to actually, you know, teach the material so you know how to do the homework? Are you looking for a professor that finishes material a month early and then still forces you to finish early, despite it being her fault you are feeling rushed? Then look no further!