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Get your pick of profs

College Students: Ever work your tail off for a good grade, only to find out that a friend taking the same course, but with a different professor, was practically handed an A? The same friend who played video games while you took notes, and went to the keg party and hooked up with that hot sorority girl while you crammed?

Thanks to pickaprof.com, getting easy classes and easy A's is no longer luck-of-the-draw. Here you can look up professors on campus and gain access to information that'll enable you to boost your GPA. Nearly 60 universities, big and small, are included.

First, click the "Register" link. The membership fee is $7 per semester, and you'll automatically receive a $5 gift certificate each semester from eCampus.com, which sells DVDs, games and school materials. (Students who sign up as freshmen get one semester free.)

There are two ways to find easy professors. By class, enter the department abbreviation and course number in the boxes at the upper left (or browse through the course catalog link). Pick-A-Prof will produce a comparison table for all the professors who've taught that course. The table shows the average grade handed out, student ratings of the teacher, and links to comments by individual students describing the class, exams and overall workload.

Or students can type in a professor's last name in another box at the upper left to view bar graphs showing the total number of each letter grade the prof has given out, or narrow their search to the grade distribution for a specific class.

Of course, there's more to college than getting good grades. ...

David Andrukonis