Reviews of professor Ren Liu

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Liu is amazing! It was a complete privilege to take his class. His lectures are easy to understand and make statistics more enjoyable. He is kind and truly cares about your learning. There are three attempts allowed on assignments so it is easy to learn from your mistakes and he is also accessible for office hours. I highly recommend him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Liu was truly enthusiastic and understanding guy with a great insight into his material and how best to relay it to his students. Just a great overall human being in general.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not good at teaching you the material TA's are better at teaching and help with the hw questions. Hw questions are similar to the test questions, just different numbers/scenarios. He does offer extra credit if you participate. Attendance not mandatory. 47% of  your grade are Exams and 53% of your grade is based on your homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ren is the greatest professor I have ever had. I'm thankful for how helpful his slides were (when they were ambiguous, he would circle the same numbers 15 times to make the point more clear). I also appreciated his advent of the "Master Bonus Point" and the "Answer a Question in Class and Get a Percentage Point to Your Grade Point" Helped a lot!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of best Professors I've ever had. He delivers the content with enthusiasm and energy every time. He makes you want to listen and because of that you soak in the content easily and enjoy yourself while doing so. Content is hard, but he made everything crystal clear. A solid 10/10.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Liu is a great teacher. He recognizes that not everyone has laptops, wifi, or time to attend mandatory zoom lecture meetings so he made class accessible by pre-recording lecture videos and uploading them for students to watch whenever they have time. He assigns four exams but he gives three tries. I highly recommend him, he's supportive!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
WITHOUT QUESTION, Ren is the BEST professor at UC Merced. Extremely knowledgeable, approachable, encouraging and nice. Grade is very well taken care of. "Master Bonus Point" and "Active Participation Point" and final score round-up all hugely increase scores. Bottom line is that he TRULY cares about you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Liu is an amazing professor! His lectures are easy to understand and follow but I recommend going to his class and not skipping bc the way he explains some of the concepts are really helpful. His grading is very straightforward! The homework isnt hard, and his exams arent too hard if you are following his lectures!He gives extra credit!