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. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.020.

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.

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 CHEM 14AE ↗

In Falls

Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.

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. 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.

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 03 Sep 11:29: 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.

• Lec 1 MWF 11:00am-11:50am

  Open

  Anderson, L. and Deweese, D.

  3.18

  course average · 991 grades

  112 seats left. 165 of 277 enrolled medium 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 13 hours ago

  7 discussions, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 7 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (7)

  • Dis 1A

    W 9:00am-10:50am · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    6 seats left.

    33 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    6 seats left.

    33 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    10 seats left.

    29 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    18 seats left.

    22 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    R 10:00am-11:50am · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    19 seats left.

    20 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 1F

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    32 seats left.

    8 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1G

    R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Young Hall 2033

    Open

    21 seats left.

    20 of 41 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 144 and 318 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 302 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.