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You are looking at Winter 2026. That term is over, so these are last term's numbers rather than seats you can take. dibs holds 1,472 sections for Winter 2026, read 7 days ago. Separately, it has finished 195 of the 3,481 courses on its own sweep list for this term. Terms nobody is enrolling in are swept one a night in rotation, so a course with nothing here may simply not have been reached yet. Back to Fall 2026

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You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in, and a lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full. Where a class has discussions, the seat figure on its row is theirs and not the lecture's. All 657 UCLA general education courses, ranked on four years of the registrar's grades, how fast they fill, and the latest seat readings.

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    Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 10 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

    First-year, first quarter, or transferring in? Nothing here is hidden from you, because you have not said what year you are. Tell dibs your year. What your degree audit says is left, or add what you have already taken.

    ENGL 90 Shakespeare

    3.69 average, this instructor · 203 grades · 3 terms
    78 in 100 got an A minus or better · 3 in 100 took a D, F or W

    Open, 33 seats left. Literary and Cultural Analysis.

    2 exams, said by 11 reviewers2 papers, said by 10 reviewersQuizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers

    Workload light, 1 professor rated on BruinWalk

    ASTR 5 Life in Universe

    3.78 average, this instructor · 301 grades · 2 terms
    89 in 100 got an A minus or better · 1 in 100 took a D, F or W

    Open, 7 seats left. Life Sciences and Physical Sciences.

    Workload very heavy to very light, 11 professors rated on BruinWalk, none of them teaching it this term

    LGBTQS M114 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

    3.80 average, this instructor · 1,007 grades · 10 terms
    87 in 100 got an A minus or better · 2 in 100 took a D, F or W

    Closed by the department. Social Analysis and Literary and Cultural Analysis.

    No exams, said by 4 reviewers2 papers, said by 7 reviewersProblem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers

    Workload very light, 1 professor rated on BruinWalk

    LIFESCI 30A Mathematics for Life Scientists

    3.51 average, this instructor · 947 grades · 3 terms
    70 in 100 got an A minus or better · 4 in 100 took a D, F or W

    Closed by the department. Life Sciences.

    2 exams, said by 2 reviewersQuizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers

    Workload very light, 1 professor rated on BruinWalk

    CHEM 14AE General Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced

    3.16 average, this instructor · 619 grades · 2 terms
    46 in 100 got an A minus or better · 6 in 100 took a D, F or W

    Closed. Physical Sciences.

    Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewersQuizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewersProblem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers

    Workload average to light, 2 professors rated on BruinWalk, none of them teaching it this term

    The exam, paper, quiz and problem set marks come from what reviewers wrote, and a mark reaches a row here only where at least two of them said the same thing. A blank means nobody said, which is not the same as none: where a reviewer said there were none, the row says none. A mark carrying ×? is a kind reviewers wrote about without any of them giving a number, which is not the same as none either.

    Always check MyUCLA before you enroll. dibs holds nothing and cannot move you up a list. If MyUCLA disagrees with this page, MyUCLA is right.

    Where dibs holds the breakdown behind an average, the row prints the share who took a D, F or W beside it: an average says how a class went for the middle of the room, and that share says how many it went badly for. Every section page carries a link straight to the registrar's own page for that section, so the source is one tap from the numbers you were reading.

    Class you want already full? dibs will email you the moment a seat opens in it. Open the class, tap Sign in to watch for an opening, and that is your alert set. It costs nothing and it needs an account only because the email has to have somewhere to go. Undergraduate courses only: dibs does not send alerts for graduate courses yet, so a graduate class carries no watch button at all.

    Why the top of this list is boring

    The average GE course at UCLA grades at 3.67 over Fall 2021 to Fall 2025: one figure per course, over every GE course dibs holds a grade record for. 56 of them sit at 3.85 or higher with at least two hundred grades behind them.

    dibs holds a second campus figure and it is deliberately not the same one: 3.58 is the average letter grade counted per student rather than per course, over every UCLA course rather than the GEs, and a course with few grades has its own figure pulled toward it. Nothing on this page is ranked at it. A course with no grade record is not ranked at all.

    So near the top, the grade has stopped telling you anything. What is left is whether you can get in, when it meets, and whether you want to be in the room for ten weeks. Lower down the list, the grade starts telling you a great deal.

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    Literary and Cultural Analysis 247 courses · the Arts and Humanities Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis 78 courses · the Arts and Humanities Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice 165 courses · the Arts and Humanities Historical Analysis 217 courses · Society and Culture Social Analysis 211 courses · Society and Culture Life Sciences 91 courses · Scientific Inquiry Physical Sciences 75 courses · Scientific Inquiry

    Not a GE? dibs has grade records for 8,351 UCLA courses. Search any of them ›

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