Reviews of professor Anushree Vichare

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She believes this is the only class we are taking. Assignments are lengthy and are due every week. Literally feels like a 10-credit course. Look elsewhere if you want to do well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is not that helpful. Will not take again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Vichare is intelligent and knows her stuff but she should not be a professor. Grading for memos are absurd considering that they grade it if its like we are senators at the hill. Lectures do not tie together and expects us to memorize the Constitution word for word. Look somewhere else.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor is not very good with time management. Had 8 groups do 25+ minute presentations within a 3 hour time frame. Most groups presented for 30-40 minutes so class went on for another hour. Even then later groups still got cut off so she could leave by 10. Groups who got cut off were penalized. Nightmare class, take online.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Too much readings for lenghty in-class policy memos that gives people headaches. You only have 2 hours to plan it out and write which is not enough time. I recommend taking this course online since its easier. If you cant do that make sure to bring a lawyer and businessman with you so you will be prepared for whatever surprise she throws at you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor changed the grading policy. Replaced peer evaluation (10%) with a difficult policy memo where you have to synthesize multiple abstract articles in a short amount of time. The memo has to be flawless to receive a good score even though most people did not see one before. It seems she wants to filter students out.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Assignments are graded harshly. Only the congressional hearing and debates are graded leniently. After that she told the TAs to step it up including the presentation which is supposed to be a easy A. Public speaking is hard for most people so the default score should be 90. I know some people who did not receive a passing grade on the presentation.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Unlike most professors who teaches the core at this school, this professor is a real PI with undergrads, grads, post-docs, and possibly some high school students in her research group. With that being said, expectations are a little higher than other sections. You have to understand her research in order to do well in this section.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
All I have to say is look somewhere else.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I don't know WHAT these reviews were talking about, but Professor Vichare is literally one of the nicest teachers I've had at GW. Class is easy if you're a decent writer. All of my classmates loved having her as a professor!