Reviews of professor Marie-France Nelson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have had her twice now and I would avoid her at all costs for the rest of my two years.  Extremely rude, a horrible grader, and very unapproachable.  I always attended class, studied the material, and paid attention, yet I would receive a 70 on every assignment I did.  The type of teacher who wants to fail all of her students.  AVOID HER.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Teacher just brags about her horses and does not know about the material presented. She's more like a fraud than a real teacher. She will grade you as harshly as possible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very knowledgeable and friendly professor... But beware that for an intro-level class getting a good grade is ungodly difficult. The content is easy to grasp and the class moves at a decent pace but the grading is incredibly harsh and subjective. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU CARE A LOT ABOUT GRADES...YOU WILL NOT DO AS WELL AS YOU EXPECT.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
she was always very high-energy, which was good since I had her for my last class. there were many presentations but it wasn't too bad. lessons very clear and straightforward. She loves her horse

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class itself is focused on easy concepts, but Professor Nelson makes grading and instruction difficult to follow. She doesn't provide helpful feedback on projects and work, making it difficult to know what you are doing right and wrong. If you do the readings and homework, you'll manage to do OK, but prepare for confusion.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nelson is mid. Her lectures, if she even bothers to show up, are boring and dull. She is also a very picky grader and will take points off for the smallest reasons. This did force students to learn how to present well and every student in class got better at presenting. She is strict and wants to be known as a mean professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Nelson's lectures are very lively and interesting, but her grading criteria aren't very clear. For example, I got points taken off for something that a classmate did not.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Nelson is a hard grader, that much is true. She is very active in case competitions, and her teaching really shows with how well her students do. You have to work hard, but is pays off. She is great!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super nice, energetic and loud

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Nelson makes an intro class so difficult to do well in. The concepts are easy, but she is gone all the time and grades so harshly. It's hard to get feedback unless it's her yelling at the class. I did worse in this intro class (despite doing all the reading and homework) than a high level statistics class. Avoid her class if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
her grading is so unclear and so harsh, I worked so hard in this class but she's on a power trip and gives out bad grades with no explanation