CHEM 14AE
General Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced
Grades
3.18
Average grade awarded in CHEM 14AE. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
46%
of the 991 letter grades
D, F or W
4.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 991 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. No summer session is in that record. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.07 to 3.25.
- A+ 30 · 3.0%
- A 264 · 26.6%
- A- 162 · 16.3%
- B+ 113 · 11.4%
- B 157 · 15.8%
- B- 80 · 8.1%
- C+ 45 · 4.5%
- C 70 · 7.1%
- C- 23 · 2.3%
- D+ 10 · 1.0%
- D 14 · 1.4%
- D- 8 · 0.8%
- F 15 · 1.5%
- P 2 of 998
- I 5 of 998
Percentages are of the 991 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEWEESE, DORY reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 619 | 2 | 46% | - | not teaching it |
| CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 372 | 2 | 47% | light | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 14AE, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Life Sciences 30A or Mathematics 3A or 31A or score of 48 or better on Mathematics Diagnostic Test. Not open to students with credit for course 14A or 20A. Study of foundations of chemistry. Discussion of foundations of quantum mechanics and how these principles can be used to understand atomic and molecular structure and properties; how molecules interact; and properties of inorganic, organic, and biological acids, bases, and salts. Biological, environmental, and socially-relevant examples are used to illustrate central role that chemistry plays in our world. Emphasis on developing problem-solving skills and collaborative interaction and learning. P/NP or letter grading.