Reviews of professor Fatma Sonmez Leopold

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you want to learn finance and want to succeed in this course, you NEED Fatma. She is amazing with the curriculum and cares about her students. She always has office hours and will meet with students anytime to help outside of class. Key to success is going to class and paying attention to lectures. 45% of your grade is HW that has unlim. attempt

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is easily one of the best professors Ive ever had! She walks you through the problems and really cares about the students. If you have a chance to take a class with her I highly recommend!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Excellent professor who cares immensely about her students

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the few professors that truly care about their students, great communication. She made a genuine effort to ensure we understood concepts and was extremely considerate of our outside responsibilities. Fair amount of work, respected our time and did her best to ensure we succeeded. Hard subject but do-able with effort.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the best professors in Whitman. Her lectures are clear and put into simple terms so you can understand. Very helpful in office hours. If you do the homework, go to class, and understand the concepts and slides from class you will do just fine.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really like Professor Leopold, but I think for non-finance majors that are going to take the core, you need to see a rating on here that isn't a perfect 5. This class is taught as if everyone wants to continue on in Finance and because of that, material is taught very quickly. There is also no margin for error on tests with no partial credit.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is such a sweet and caring professor. Really cares about her students. The class is hard and the exams are hard, but she offers test corrections which will save your life. She makes sure we are all engaged and following along, and she has a lot of respect from her students. Don't take finance with anyone else.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's absolutely amazing. She cares about her students and keeps the class interesting. There are very few good professors in Whitman, but she is one of them.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want a professor that will bully you and teach you nothing this is your girl. It is sad how she talks down to students. When a student doesn't answer something correct she will say something like "my 7 year old daughter knows how to do this". She is passionate about finance but such an awful teacher and so unbelievably disrespectful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
My only problem with her is the way she sometimes makes students feel terrible by talking down to students, such as "if you are finance major, no reasons you wouldn't know this" or "even my mother/daughter knows this". She is very intelligent and great at explaining contents, but just stay strong and don't feel bad if yourself.