Reviews of professor Amanda Schrager-Lavelle

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst professor ever. I feel like she wanted me to not succeed. She seemingly goes on a power trip when she can put down an undergrad student. She gives you no wiggle room when it comes to assignments and if you do not use the EXACT words she uses, you'r wrong. She clearly plays favorites. If you dont wear a mask, she won't even speak to you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lab was pretty interesting, would have been nice to finish it but COVID. Learned some important developmental techniques. Thought the grading was mostly fair, she did grade hard on journal club and not really sure what I did wrong still, but everything else was very good. She works hard to make this a good class, even after online transition.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lavelle is the MOST disrespectful person I have ever met. She doesnt care about her students, or anyone. On the 2nd day of class she yelled at 20+ people for being 1 minute late to class. Soon after class began she made a rule that if you leave you cant come back, even to go to the bathroom. Do not waste your money. Shes there for her paycheck.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought that the biology lab that she taught was engaging and fun. You have to show up because most of the labs are hands on activities, and then a 10 point quiz at the end. There is one project all semester that is graded toughly but other than that the class is fairly easy and a good general biology lab.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She is the worst. No respect towards her students. She is not here to help. She is pretentious and proud and I honestly don't even know for what.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Lavelle was a very good teacher. She really cares about getting her students to learn the material and be in a good learning environment. She is a developmental plant biologist but teaches this class so that you can learn about both animal and plant development. She worked really hard on making this class. She was always available to answer Qs.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She doesn't show much sympathy. Late assignments are accepted by 25% is taken off per day. She has quizzes for every lab which aren't worth a lot but then she has a 100 point test the last week.