She is absolutely the worst professor I've ever encountered at UVA. I strongly suggest that everyone carefully review her past evaluations and feedback from other students before choosing this course.

This course uses a flipped classroom format, which I found extremely unpleasant. Much of the class time was simply a restatement of material students had already learned, rather than further explaining difficult points or helping students deepen their understanding. This semester, the course also has a mandatory attendance policy; students can only miss two sessions, and each additional absence will result in a 1% deduction from their overall grade. I think this policy is too strict, especially given the course's insufficient teaching support, and it puts extra pressure on students.

Furthermore, I believe the professor has significant communication problems. She doesn't reply to emails promptly, sometimes not at all, and doesn't have consistent office hours, making it difficult for students to get timely help when they encounter problems. Project and assignment requirements are sometimes unclear, and the grading criteria are not transparent, especially in the final project section, making it difficult for students to accurately understand how to complete the task and how to obtain the corresponding grade.

Although the overall grade distribution of this course may not seem low, I personally do not recommend this professor. Students choosing this course should be prepared for significant pressure regarding course requirements, attendance policies, project grading, and communication efficiency. For me, this was ultimately the only course I received a B+ in university. In my opinion, the main reason was that the requirements and grading criteria for the final project were not clearly stated, and I lost a large number of points on those sections, causing my overall grade to drop by nearly 6 percentage points. After the grades were released, I tried to communicate further and seek clarification, but received no effective response. Therefore, I believe this course had significant problems in course management, grading transparency, and communication between instructors and students.

Easy class but is poorly organized. I hate the flipped classroom structure. It is essentially allowing her not to teach and making us learn off those boring videos. However, the class is structured to make it easy for you to get an A even with the 95 threshold. The exams are out of 100 points but there are a total of 120 points you can gain and there is a cheatsheet. The questions are not curveballs but they can be challenging. If you pay attention in class and study you should be chilling. The class is just numbing. There is also a project at the end of the semester (no final) which is nice and pretty easy if you put some effort. #tCFspring26.

Mid professor, easy course. Lectures are boring and my TA wasn't very helpful either which was frustrating. I wouldn't recommend this class to anyone that doesn't have to take it. #tCFS25

The class has so much potential - it teaches regression analysis which is crucial to statistics - but ultimately fails. You literally just copy from her RPubs guide for the classwork and open note exams (called labs) but just change a few things, you don't even need to understand the code. There's a project but my group finished in a few hours the day it was due for both parts. Lectures are not required and not useful at all. I attended like two lectures and would do the classworks right before they were due in a few hours. Professor V is nice but the class is a waste of time, I didn't take anything away. It's an easy A class though.

I am coming back and writing this review after two semesters because I realize how important this class is and how I lacked fundamentals. Regression is necessary for a lot of upper-level classes and possibly in the industry, and this class does not provide a solid foundation. This is likely because of the way the course is structured. I mean I think this class is an easy A but it doesn't reinforce the material and it is just assignments. Learning was shallow and surface-level. I ABSOLUTELY HATE that a flipped classroom was used for this because that is not how you learn a foundational class. Professor V is definitely organized, but she does not go above and beyond to teach concepts. I don't know man. I feel like the job of a professor is to answer questions and encourage curiosity. I don't think Professor V gave us many opportunities for that, maybe the project ig. The statistics department at UVA is not the best, so for your own sake please solidify your foundations with external courses because this class will not get the job done :(

Unless this class is required, do not take this class. Krista is a terrible professor and doesn't really care for her students or her job in general. This class is supposed to be a "flipped classroom". However, you do not really retain the information you learn from the instruction you do out of class. The videos she posts are not that helpful as she just reads off the slides for 20-30 minutes. In class, we work on our classwork that is usually due once every 2-3 weeks. Krista is extremely lazy when it comes to responding to emails or getting things graded on time. I had an issue with submitting one assignment due to knitting problems and it took 3 email attempts and 2 in-person visits for her to properly acknowledge the issue. She put in grades on Canvas during Thanksgiving break, which is a little too late to have an understanding of how well you're doing in class. The final project is interesting as you work in groups of 3-4 where you research a topic of your own and apply everything we have learned to the project. Another plus to taking this class is that attendance isn't mandatory. Overall, I do not recommend taking this class unless it is a requirement.

To do well in this course has to do more with ability to copy and paste, not organically producing outputs, understanding different functions, and general coding acumen. There is so much emphasis placed on all of the wrong things; getting the correct output is higher on the order of importance than understanding the output and its meaning/implications. I learned a decent amount in the class, but somehow it all felt unimportant/superfluous. I wish Krista cared slightly more about how she presents herself and comes off to students. She legitimately wears pajamas somedays, and will NEVER turn down an opportunity to complain to the class about students emailing her about grades.

This class utilizes the flipped-classroom structure where you are supposed to watch videos before coming to class. Once you come to class, you are supposed to ask questions and work through the classwork. Put simply, in a class of eighty kids, this just isn't effective, and this is DEMONSTRABLY true when you consider the results of the weekly in-class check ins. 1 to 5 on how confident students are with the material, 1 being not confident at all, 5 being super confident, and the average among a sample of ~150 students is usually around a 2, but for one reason or another, this never seems to concern Krista.

The final project is the best part of the class; it's interesting and you get free rein to do as you see fit with your data/research questions. Just follow the rubric incredibly closely, and you will probably do well, so long as you do not have any glaring mistakes elsewhere. Your final presentation is reviewed by a stat professor or a TA alongside other groups of students, and your score is an aggregation of what they think of you. For your sake, hope you don't get Ross; that guy is so disparaging and mean to presenters. He's very unhappy and incredibly impolite: yawning during people presenting, belittling them and their efforts, asking disingenuous questions, and berating their data, research methods, variable transformations, etc. He needs to find a new job.

All in all, the course has potential, but it kind of just stinks. You learn some stuff, but none of it feels that important. Getting the right outputs and making it look pretty is prioritized over understanding the outputs and what they mean for your data, which is evident by the copy-and-paste-from-the-notes-but-change-it-slightly-to-fit-the-variables nature of the exams (labs). The labs don't encourage critical thinking, coding acumen, or statistical understanding as much as they encourage rote dictation. The no late work policy is slightly annoying, only because sometimes there are issues with knitting/formatting and downloading to her EXACT specifications, but I am sure that is not going to change. All that said, it's easy to do well (B+ or better pretty easily) because she drops the lowest of every grade category.

Required for Stat major and minor (wouldn't recommend it otherwise). Understanding of statistics from AP or other intro classes is helpful, and taking STAT 1601 is good to cover R. Lots of people were worried about the coding, but all we really did was copy and paste her code then make edits for our own work. No one would be able to code anything on their own because we never even learned the functions or arguments.

Highly recommend actually attending class and watching the videos or you won't learn anything. Each week she would do a survey of how well the class understood the topic and was so unfazed by it being extremely low every time.

Final project was interesting and ultimately helped my learning but the instructions were super unclear. Required lots of reading between the lines and going to office house when it could have just been made plain in the instructions.

Krista can be tough! She goes through all the stats theory properly and equips you well for anything graded. With that said, she can be tough and stern with expectations of the class, so make sure to follow up to her standard and you'll be fine.

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This class is pretty easy. Like some other STAT classes, Prof. Varanyak drops the lowest grade in almost every category so you can take the L quite a few times and still end up with an A. There's a "lab" for every unit, that's more like an extended version of the classroom and just tests your ability to actually replicate the stuff she goes over in class. The material is really useful, if a bit dry, and the lectures aren't the most engaging... but honestly Krista is doing her best with what she has. Linear regression just be like that. No exams, just a big project that's due in two chunks plus a presentation with your poster, oh and it's a group project btw. She grades very nicely, though the TAs do vary a bit in their niceness. Pretty lowkey class all in all.