He did a great job at making the course content understandable and digestible, and took relatively dry concepts and made them interesting! Grade consisted of section attendance, 3 problem sets (one could get replaced by an optional 4th set), midterm and final. Work with TAs on the problem sets, go to class and office hours and you'll be fine.

Prof. Mildenberger is super smart and really kind. He wants people to understand the material. He doesn't talk too fast so you have time to take notes. The class is hard, but since you have to take it to get into the major, I think he does a great job making the statistics material clearer to understand. He's one of the best in the dept.

He was a really nice and accommodating guy. He pushed back our problems sets for POLS 15 multiple times so we had more time to work on it. Pretty challenging class but he was good at explaining.

The lectures were not always congruous with the coding problem sets so you either had to defer to your TA or work it out independently. The professor was super nice but sometimes he would say he would give us a certain amount of time for an assignment but then forget to actually honor it. Still, he was generally pretty accommodating and lenient

Lectures were boring and difficult to get through. Learning to code via zoom wasn't the greatest experience. Highly recommend working in groups.

This class can be challenging if you don't have a background in statistics, so make sure that you understand the underlying concepts. Learning to code in R isn't terrible either, as long as you practice and work together to do the problem sets.