MATH 115A
Linear Algebra
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 5 hours ago.
Grades
3.19
Average grade awarded in MATH 115A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
49%
of the 2,385 letter grades
D, F or W
5.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
80% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,385 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.00 to 3.72.
Historical grades for ARANT, TYLER JAMES, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| SHIN, BRIAN YOUNGHO reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.21 | 296 | 5 | 47% | light | not teaching it |
| DO, KIM TUAN reviews ↗ | 3.08 | 3.07 | 236 | 4 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| NIENHAUS, JAN reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 3.01 | 219 | 4 | 40% | very light | not teaching it |
| YEONG, WERN YEEN reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.97 | 201 | 4 | 39% | very light | not teaching it |
| OPIE, MORGAN PECK reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.39 | 192 | 3 | 56% | light | not teaching it |
| EBERT, MARK reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.97 | 122 | 3 | 41% | light | not teaching it |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.33 | 3.35 | 107 | 3 | 62% | very light | not teaching it |
| CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.40 | 106 | 2 | 59% | heavy | not teaching it |
| SANCHEZ OCAL, PABLO reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.33 | 103 | 2 | 45% | - | not teaching it |
| GANNON, KYLE ANDREW COX reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.64 | 84 | 1 | 74% | very light | not teaching it |
| ROPER, MARCUS LEIGH reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.79 | 84 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KAN, KAI FUNG reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.33 | 83 | 2 | 48% | light | not teaching it |
| MIN, HYUNKI reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.44 | 70 | 1 | 61% | very light | not teaching it |
| LIU, GANG reviews ↗ | 2.77 | 2.63 | 51 | 1 | 31% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| KASUM, OBRAD reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.01 | 37 | 1 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| ENAKOUTSA, KOFFI reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.24 | 37 | 1 | 49% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BLASIUS, DON M reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.13 | 37 | 1 | 46% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| MA, SIHAO reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 2.95 | 37 | 1 | 32% | - | not teaching it |
| WONG, RICHARD reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.06 | 35 | 1 | 37% | heavy | not teaching it |
| HIGGINS, VIJAY reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 2.91 | 35 | 1 | 31% | - | not teaching it |
| SHEVCHENKO, OLHA reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.12 | 33 | 1 | 58% | very light | not teaching it |
| VASHAW, KENT reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.30 | 30 | 1 | 53% | - | not teaching it |
| POPA, SORIN reviews ↗ | 3.05 | 2.98 | 29 | 1 | 41% | - | not teaching it |
| SCAVIA, FEDERICO reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.27 | 29 | 1 | 66% | - | not teaching it |
| MORAGA, JOAQUIN reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.22 | 28 | 1 | 64% | - | not teaching it |
| ADKISSON, WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.17 | 3.16 | 28 | 1 | 54% | - | not teaching it |
| HU, NICHOLAS reviews ↗ | 2.72 | 2.41 | 26 | 1 | 15% | - | not teaching it |
| JOHNSON, CASEY LYNN reviews ↗ | 3.04 | 2.80 | 10 · | 1 | 40% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 350 reviews 26 days ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MATH 115A. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
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, two hours. Requisite: course 33A. Techniques of proof, abstract vector spaces, linear transformations, and matrices; determinants; inner product spaces; eigenvector theory. 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 : the oldest of these 8 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MWF 2:00pm-2:50pmClosed3.19predicted, all instructors · 2,385 grades
103 of 103 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, none open. Its waitlist is full too, at 12 of 12.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
TR 11:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 6229
Closed32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1B
TR 12:00pm-12:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 6229
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1C
TR 1:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 6229
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1D
TR 2:00pm-2:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 6229
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Lec 2 MWF 9:00am-9:50amClosed3.19predicted, all instructors · 2,385 grades
80 of 80 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, none open. Its waitlist is full too, at 6 of 6.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 27 and 71 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 37 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MATH 115A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Arant, T.J. · 103 of 103 enrolled
Filled by 15 over about 2 months
Lec 2 · Balmer, P. · 80 of 80 enrolled
Filled by 34 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.