Cell and Molecular Biology

Grades

3.51

Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 7A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.005.

The registrar's own records: 14,529 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.11 to 3.80.

By instructor

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for LIFESCI 7A ↗

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Introduction to basic principles of cell structure and cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 02 Sep 02:42: the oldest of these 94 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45am

  Closed

  Pires, D.B. and McEvoy, M.M.

  3.31

  this instructor · 2,068 grades

  273 of 273 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  14 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 14 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)

  • Dis 1A

    M 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Rolfe Hall 3134

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    M 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    M 5:00pm-6:15pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A32

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1F

    T 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1G

    T 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1H

    T 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1I

    T 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1J

    W 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1K

    R 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1L

    R 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1M

    R 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1N

    F 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

• Lec 2 TR 11:00am-12:15pm

  Closed

  Maloy, J.P.

  3.59

  this instructor · 3,203 grades

  273 of 273 · 2 over enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  14 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 14 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)

  • Dis 2A

    M 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2B

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2C

    M 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 · 2 over enrolled

  • Dis 2D

    M 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2E

    M 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2F

    T 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2G

    T 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2H

    T 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2I

    W 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2J

    W 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2K

    R 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2L

    R 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 2M

    R 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 2N

    F 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

• Lec 3 TR 12:30pm-1:45pm

  Closed

  Maloy, J.P.

  3.59

  this instructor · 3,203 grades

  274 of 274 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  14 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 14 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)

  • Dis 3A

    M 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3B

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 3C

    T 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3D

    T 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 3E

    T 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3F

    T 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    21 of 21 enrolled

  • Dis 3G

    W 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3H

    W 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 3I

    W 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3J

    T 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 3K

    R 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3L

    F 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 3M

    F 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 3N

    F 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

• Lec 4 TR 2:00pm-3:15pm

  Closed

  Ko, J. and Marcroft, T.A.

  3.51

  this instructor · 2,661 grades

  270 of 270 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  14 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 14 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)

  • Dis 4A

    M 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4B

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 4C

    M 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4D

    M 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 4E

    T 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 4F

    T 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 4G

    T 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4H

    W 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 4I

    W 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4J

    W 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4K

    R 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4L

    R 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4M

    R 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 4N

    F 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

• Lec 5 TR 5:00pm-6:15pm

  Closed

  Ko, J.

  3.51

  this instructor · 2,661 grades

  300 of 300 · 1 over enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  16 discussions, 1 open: Dis 5H, W 3:30pm-4:45pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 16 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (16)

  • Dis 5A

    M 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    19 of 19 · 1 over enrolled

  • Dis 5B

    M 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 5C

    M 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    18 of 18 · 1 over enrolled

  • Dis 5D

    M 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 5E

    M 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 5F

    M 3:30pm-4:45pm · Rolfe Hall 3134

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5G

    M 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 5H

    W 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Open

    1 seat left.

    17 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5I

    W 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5J

    R 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 5K

    R 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5L

    R 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 5M

    R 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 5N

    R 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5O

    F 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 5P

    F 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

• Lec 6 TR 11:00am-12:15pm

  Open

  Lazazzera, B.A.

  3.52

  this instructor · 1,537 grades

  3 seats left. 304 of 307 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  16 discussions, 2 open: Dis 6B, M 9:30am-10:45am, and Dis 6E, M 12:30pm-1:45pm.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (16)

  • Dis 6A

    M 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6B

    M 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    limited limited to: College Peer Group and New Students Only: restrictions read 24 hours ago
    Open

    1 seat left.

    20 of 21 enrolled

  • Dis 6C

    M 11:00am-12:15pm · Public Affairs Building 2242

    limited limited to: College Peer Group and New Students Only: restrictions read 24 hours ago
    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 6D

    M 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 5233

    limited limited to: College Peer Group and New Students Only: restrictions read 24 hours ago
    Closed

    21 of 21 enrolled

  • Dis 6E

    M 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    limited limited to: College Peer Group and New Students Only: restrictions read 24 hours ago
    Open

    2 seats left.

    19 of 21 enrolled

  • Dis 6F

    M 2:00pm-3:15pm · Bunche Hall 2178

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6G

    M 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6H

    M 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 6I

    M 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 6J

    W 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6K

    W 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6L

    W 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 6M

    W 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 6N

    R 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 6O

    R 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915D

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 6P

    T 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 5148

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 157 and 376 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 331 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 6 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.