A Crowdsourced Tool Helps Princeton Students Learn the ‘Invisible Rules’ of College

Still, many professors have strong — and usually negative — feelings about the site. What often gets lost, though, is that RateMyProfessors aims to satisfy a need for information and guidance that colleges seem reluctant to fill. As several experts told me, colleges could reduce students’ use of the site if they shared more information about the expectations, workloads, and assumptions of different courses.