Ayce Yesilaltay is a Biology professor at Northeastern University rated 4.66/5 on Rate My Professors by 44 students, with 2.4/5 RMP difficulty and 93% who would take them again (RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated October 2026).
Ayce Yesilaltay professor reviews and ratings: 4.66/5 from 44 RMP ratings at Northeastern (93% would take again). RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
Dr. Y truly cares about her students. She opened her first lecture with jokes and immediately created a welcoming environment. You can tell she enjoys teaching and is willing to go into depth on any question you may have. She cares about your grade and that you understand her lectures, which can be heavy content. She will help you learn a lot!BIOL2299 2026-04-25 00:52:24 +0000 UTC
I love Dr. Y. Classes are definitely lecture-heavy, but she records them. And sometimes lecture won't be interesting, but lock in & you'll do fine on every exam. She has lots of resources and will always help you. + She clearly loves teaching. 4 exams, one of which is dropped; take-home quizzes (2 tries); sometimes extra credit + test corrections!BIOL2217 2026-01-19 23:04:45 +0000 UTC
If you like biology you'll enjoy her class. Exams aren't difficult (one dropped), and the poster project sounds scary, but it's actually easy and fun. She's very light-hearted and cares about her students. Main flaw is that the lectures are unorganized and not detailed. You need to be able to study and rely on yourself to learn exam material.BIOL2299 2026-04-24 00:22:18 +0000 UTC
I took A&P 2 with Professor Yesilaltay and I don't regret it at all. She's super caring and wants her students to succeed. There are 4 exams (lowest one gets dropped) and a final. She also allows for test corrections which gets added to your test grade. There's a lot of content but that's to be expected.BIOL2217 2025-12-11 20:25:50 +0000 UTC
Dr Y is a sweetie! Her class is interesting and the poster project is a semester long effort and not bad at all. Her tests are a bit tricky, but not that heavily weighted. Her lectures are crucial for details on exams, so review daily because content builds up. Make sure you follow rubrics to get full credit on classwork grades and it's an easy A.BIOL2299 2026-01-07 00:37:03 +0000 UTC
I had Dr.Yesilaltay for both A&P 1 and 2, she is amazing! It is a lecture heavy course but lectures are recorded so you can always go back and rewatch. There is test corrections after each exam and your lowest exam grade gets dropped. She is very enthusiastic about teaching and was an overall great professor! I would take her again!BIOL2217 2025-12-11 19:23:51 +0000 UTC
This class was interesting and Professor Y was very funny, but her teaching style was often hard to follow. There were a few exams and open note quizzes, but they weighed very lightly in terms of your grade. There were slideshows shown in class, but they weren't very helpful so make sure your attendance is good.BIOL2299 2025-12-19 20:09:46 +0000 UTC
she's awesome!! makes great analogies and answers questions well, and she's honest when she doesn't know an answer. lecture-heavy but she is funny and gives breaks so i've never found a lecture boring.BIOL2217 2025-12-11 03:01:04 +0000 UTC
I thought Professor Yesilatay was really nice and caring of her students, but her lectures were often confusing. You have to attend class to know what will actually be on tests because the lecture slides are not helpful. There were few assignments, but they were all pretty lengthy. She is very understanding and lenient though!BIOL2299 2025-12-15 16:51:04 +0000 UTC
She makes stuff really detailed and deep more than what we are learning in class during the test. She also walks around so much during the test. I personally wouldn't take her class again since she not really teaching us anything, she just copy and pasting things from the text book that's not really related to A&P and not really teaching us thingsBIOL2217 2025-05-29 20:44:57 +0000 UTC
Dr Y was an engaging lecturer and explained material clearly. Lecture heavy, so attending class was necessary since slides were not comprehensive and most content on quizzes/exams was only taught in class. Grade was determined by many small assignments. She gave detailed rubrics and lots of feedback. Exams were not weighted heavily and fairly easy.BIOL2299 2025-12-14 21:21:35 +0000 UTC
Organized, learned a lot, fair exams, exam corrections, and she is really nice and answers all questions. We had online quizzes with multiple attempts and a page of notes for our exams. The lab is the hard part. Great professor and I got an A!BIOL2217 2025-05-12 20:13:52 +0000 UTC
She is a very nice lady and cares a lot about what she is talking about. However the way she explains things is not straightforward at all and her lectures are very hard to follow. Luckily her exams are pretty easy, as long as you get the big concepts you'll be fine. Lectures are not recorded and slides are not helpful.BIOL2299 2025-12-03 00:00:16 +0000 UTC
take-home quizzes every week, poll ev for attendance, and exams that are completely fair/not too difficult, it is manageable to pass this daunting class. she is super sweet and answers emails so fast. if anything the lab was the hardest part and i mean its HARD, so time consuming for a 1 credit course but the lecture is more than fine honestly.BIOL2217 2025-04-10 14:01:51 +0000 UTC
By far the best professor I have this semester! Definitely recommend if you want a professor who will bring enthusiasm and inspiration to both yours and her own work. Very intelligent individual. Love this class!BIOL2299 2025-09-30 15:56:19 +0000 UTC
Ayce Yesilaltay is rated 4.66/5 on Rate My Professors from 44 ratings. 93% of RMP reviewers said they would take them again.
Ayce Yesilaltay's classes have a difficulty rating of 2.4/5 on Rate My Professors.
Ayce Yesilaltay has taught BIOL2217, BIOL2299, BIOL2219, BIOL1000 at Northeastern.
Data updated October 2026.