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MATH 115A

Linear Algebra

5 units

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 6 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

Grades

3.19

Average grade awarded in MATH 115A. Not a 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.00 to 3.72.

  • A+ 189 · 7.9%
  • A 681 · 28.6%
  • A- 294 · 12.3%
  • B+ 260 · 10.9%
  • B 293 · 12.3%
  • B- 177 · 7.4%
  • C+ 136 · 5.7%
  • C 125 · 5.2%
  • C- 98 · 4.1%
  • D+ 27 · 1.1%
  • D 42 · 1.8%
  • D- 12 · 0.5%
  • F 51 · 2.1%
  • P 20 of 2,436
  • NP 5 of 2,436
  • S 1 of 2,436
  • U 1 of 2,436
  • I 24 of 2,436

Percentages are of the 2,385 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
SHIN, BRIAN YOUNGHO reviews ↗ 3.21 3.21 296 5 47% - not teaching it
DO, KIM TUAN reviews ↗ 3.08 3.07 236 4 44% - not teaching it
NIENHAUS, JAN reviews ↗ 3.03 3.01 219 4 40% - not teaching it
YEONG, WERN YEEN reviews ↗ 2.99 2.97 201 4 39% - not teaching it
OPIE, MORGAN PECK reviews ↗ 3.37 3.39 192 3 56% - not teaching it
EBERT, MARK reviews ↗ 2.99 2.97 122 3 41% - not teaching it
KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ 3.33 3.35 107 3 62% - not teaching it
CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ 3.37 3.40 106 2 59% - 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% - 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% - not teaching it
MIN, HYUNKI reviews ↗ 3.39 3.44 70 1 61% - not teaching it
LIU, GANG reviews ↗ 2.77 2.63 51 1 31% - 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% - 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% - 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% - 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 · small sample 1 40% - not teaching it

“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 MATH 115A

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

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

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. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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.

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.

Lec 1 · Arant, T.J. · 103 of 152 enrolled

Filled by 15 over 15 days

16080
17 Aug 15:07capacity 1522 Sep 02:42

Lec 2 · Balmer, P. · 49 of 76 enrolled

Filled by 3 over 15 days

8042
17 Aug 15:07capacity 762 Sep 02:42