Reviews of professor Melissa Carver

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Melissa is one of the best, definitely take her if possible. Her lectures are really well organized and at a good pace. She doesnt read off slides but her examples are not in them so plan to take notes. She posts everything after class and tells you what is important to know which helps. Lots of work. Not sure how but she made tax interesting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Melissa is a caring professor. Make sure you talk to her outside of class so she gets to know you. Sometimes, she didn't know what she was doing in class, and us students helped her get to the correct answer. Kinda disorganized. You have to study a lot on your own to get a good grade. But overall, she was helpful and her powerpoints are good too.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She tries way too hard to be hip and cool. Was so disorganized. Projects are impossible. Grading is unclear. Often got sidetracked during lecture - first 30-40 minutes were irrelevant administrative stuff. Utke subbed one day when she was gone and taught us so much. Only benefit is open note exams, but she doesnt make them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Melissa can be frustrating at times (course changes and giving last minute info) and I learned more outside of class rather than during lectures, but I would recommend. She's very caring. Melissa has an interesting sense of humor which makes tax lectures bearable. Exam averages are much higher than Utke's hint CURVES hint. Take tax with her!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's fair. It's tax - not exciting but necessary. Compared to 3201, it's similar in workload and exams, but the exams are open notes. Rewriting my notes and coming to class were how I did well on exams and quizzes. I'm not headed for tax, but it was a good class, somewhat interesting. I'm probably going to take Corp Tax with her next year.

Rating: 4.5/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took Prof Sottile's financial planning class for the MSA - it was really cool. I learned a lot of things that I can use in practice, and in my own planning. Her class changed the way I thought about money. Very accessible and an interesting lecturer. My favorite class at UConn.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Melissa does a really good job to make Tax interesting and presents it with rich humor. It helps immensely that the tests are open note (the quizzes are not and the second exam has a tricky tax return problem). Just take good notes, ask questions, and DO THE CONNECT PROBLEMS, as they are similar to the exam.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took tax with her last year and though I didn't want to take the class, she made it interesting, at least. She uses Connect a lot for tests and exams, which I prefer because I get grades right away, and there were always extra practice sets. My boyfriend had her two years ago and nailed his REG exam, I'm counting on doing the same this summer.