CHEM 14AE
General Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2026: 1 lecture and 7 discussions. 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.07 to 3.25.
Historical grades for DEWEESE, DORY, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 19 · 3.1%
- A 157 · 25.4%
- A- 106 · 17.1%
- B+ 80 · 12.9%
- B 90 · 14.5%
- B- 51 · 8.2%
- C+ 22 · 3.6%
- C 43 · 6.9%
- C- 15 · 2.4%
- D+ 7 · 1.1%
- D 12 · 1.9%
- D- 4 · 0.6%
- F 13 · 2.1%
- I 2 of 621
Percentages are of the 619 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEWEESE, DORY reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 619 | 2 | 46% | - | Closed |
| CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 372 | 2 | 47% | light | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
Based on 26 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter 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 Winter 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 225 of 225 · 2 over enrolled
Seat risk
-7 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1A, T 10:00am-11:50am, Dis 1F, R 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Dis 1G, F 12:00pm-1:50pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 3 open discussions cannot be reached from here. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 8 discussions
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Open
1 seat left.
29 of 30 enrolled
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Closed
30 of 30 enrolled
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Closed
30 of 30 enrolled
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Closed
30 of 30 enrolled
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Cancelled
no enrollment count published
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Open
1 seat left.
29 of 30 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
44 of 45 enrolled
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Closed
30 of 30 · 5 over enrolled
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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 · Deweese, D. · 225 of 225 · 2 over enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 225 of 225.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.