dont let her name be misleading! although she sounds easy, she is really hard. i took AP stats in highschool, so the first half of this class was easy review, but her bi-weekly online quizzes sucked, especially since they were thursday nights and i was usually out. shes impossible to understand in lecture because of her heavy accent, and she is fairly unhelpful in office hours. the labs are easy and i went to lecture maybe twice, but i kept up with the homework and really out an effort into understanding the book; i ended up with a B+, but i suggest you take the class with davis, even though its early in the morning, you dont have to go to lecture so it doesnt matter.

This was one of those courses I took for my major with the intention of forgetting everything as soon as the final was over. The midterm was really easy and then the final was really difficult. I also heard horror stories about Professor Sanchez's attitude during her office hours. She is unapproachable, hard to follow, but sometimes says things that it's hard not to laugh at. I am just glad that this waste of time is now over. Also, my TA- Annie- was awful. Matilda, on the other hand, is amazing and should be the one teaching this course.

This is the first statistics class I have ever taken, and probably, the most useless one I will ever take. Lectures were mediocre; the prof talks really fast and scribbles everywhere on the board. I think the biggest problem I have with this class is how it was structured: two lectures (mon+fri), 1 lab, 1 discussion, homework, and quizzes all in one week. It's a lot to cram within one week and I felt that lab and the discussions were useless -- we could've been better off having lectures instead. Even so, lectures provided little help because the homework problems, etc were far more complicated than what we covered in lectures. My TA was terribly inefficient in helping us learn the material. She never explained anything well and confused us even more. Beware if you take this class, I taught myself everything by reading the book.

I'm going to make this as simple as possible: lectures are terrible, grading scale/policies are terrible, and Sanchez is terrible. Unless you want to teach yourself everything, I suggest you not take this class. I learned one thing though; the probability that this class will kill your GPA is about 99-103%.

Caveat: I am writing this review before I receive my class final grade. This is not a good class or a good prof. I took AP stats and got a 5 on the AP exam which is the only reason I do well in the class. The lectures are very slow and Prof is hard to understand, oftentimes confused, and also spends a lot of time off-topic. Because all the material is review, I can usually figure out what she is trying to explain; however, for first-time stats students this must be extremely frustrating. This is not to say the material is difficult to understand, rather that her lectures don't really do anything to make it accessible to the statistics-uninclined. I aced the midterm and receive relatively high grades on everything else. But whoever grades the homework is an absolute killer. I am anal retentive about how I do my homework, but I still get slammed 0.3 points on every third problem for no reason I can figure out. On many problems I show work and get the right answer but still lose half the points. And as far as I can tell I don't see the worst of it. Hopefully my test scores will buoy me to a decent grade (I still don't understand why they no longer let people pass out of this class - the subject material is much easier than what my HS AP stats class covered), but really I just need to pass because the class is a prereq. Whether you know no stats or you are a statistics whiz, do your best to avoid Stats 10 with Sanchez. If you know stats you will probably do okay but develop a strong dislike for the class, if you don't know stats I doubt you will learn much. In addition, no one is really sure how the grades work. If there is no curve and everything is based on the grades we see, this class would qualify as insanely difficult. In any event, college classes should not be this absurd.

This class should have been SUPER easy for me...I took AP Stats in high school and was always at the top of the class. Professor Sanchez' grading scale is nuts, and she can't explain anything effectively. During lecture, instead of reviewing key concepts, and doing multiple problems, we essentially end up doing one problem, and spend most of the time watching her draw a graph on the board. The format for the class is also ridiculous...there are two lectures a week, two discussions a week, and TWO (why?) online quizzes a week. I don't know whether this lady thinks this really works or just wants to know that she has our attention for an unneccessarily long period of time. I'm so irritated with this class that I almost don't care what grade I get (so long as it's a passing one), just so I can be done with this. And I don't know about the other TA's, but my TA is pretty much aloof. This class is driving me nuts.

Be prepared to rely on the TA and textbook if you want to learn anything. She is the most scatter-brained professor I've ever had.

Prof. Sanchez is a good professor in the sense that she cares about her students doing well and she is available to talk to. However, her lectures are hard to follow and unorganized. It is hard to read her scribble on the board and the lectures don't always follow a pattern. The TA's do not seem to have a good relationship with her because they never seemed to know how far along we were and always told us something different that what she did. If you are naturally good at math then this shouldn't be a problem for you. For someone like me who needs all the help they can get this was not the right professor to take this class from.

Professor Sanchez gives open book, open note exams and the midterms were definitely very easy. However, be prepared for her final because it is very long. She claims it is not a 3 hour test, but it is. Otherwise, she seems very effective and enthusiastic.

STAY AWAY from this professor. Her accent and illegible scribbles (on everything, the chalkboard, the reader, the handouts, you really can't read anything in this class) make going to lecture pointless. The TA never knows what's going on either. In this case, most people would resort to teaching themselves the material from the book, but with this professor, you can't even do that! The book is terrible and difficult to follow, and the reader is disorganized, illegible, and completely useless. Unlike any other class I've taken, the tests are graded only by looking at the final answer, so if you make any small mistakes that throw off your answer, even though you've clearly shown that you KNOW how to do the problem, you get no credit at all. When I asked about this, the TA told me, and I quote, "The professor thinks this would take too long." So I bring up the question, what exactly is her job?

Unless you already have a vast amount of stats knowledge to the point where you feel you wouldn't need a book, reader, professor, or TA to understand statistics, I would choose any other professor for stats 10.