Reviews of professor Ethan Kaplan

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gave a final paper and a final exam for a honors seminar, don't know any professor that does that especially for an honors seminar.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great Professor honestly. Lots of people complained that they didn't understand how they were supposed to be able to do the final, but when I asked them what they thought was so difficult, they said they never took notes. Just take detailed notes and attend lectures and the class is honestly pretty easy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Don't take this class if you expect an easy A or even B. Lectures are impossibly boring and assignments are often vague and unrelated to course material. The debates are easy enough to receive a good grade but are ultimately a waste of time. You can learn just as much from the posted slides as you can from the lectures. Final exam is mainly essays.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Connected with students very poorly, never mentioned a homework or exam in class at all! Left everything to TAs, Syllabus was inaccurat Hes clearly VERY smart but I wouldnt recommend Econ 175 until Kap can understand that its a gen ed. In addition, the TAs were not helpful at all. Everyone in the group me of 60+ people had the same reaction.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kaplan posts all of his lecture slides online to the ELMS course and they are exactly what is discussed in class. That is a huge plus. Other then that the guy is moderately interesting and certainly personable enough. I will say lectures sometimes can get really boring. If you're willing to put in hard work then he will be a great professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
took him for econometrics and he was great! the subject itself is quite difficult but he's a really good professor so if you attend classes, you should be able to understand and pass. He's reasonable and has extra credit questions on exams. if you're ready to put in the work and learn, take him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Kaplan is a very nice man, but runs a very unorganized course with very vague directions/grading. His class is very lecture heavy, and he doesn't go into depth about upcoming assignments. Classes are fairly boring and the discussion portion of the course is pretty pointless with annoying debates. Fairly easy B, but difficult to earn an A

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Reading the slides and not giving any examples. Even you ask a question, his answer is VERY AMBIGUOUS. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS EVEN FOR CREDIT!! It's a torture. Econ 200 or Econ 201 wil be good for substitutes if you want intro to econ.