CHEM C215A
Advanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory I
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 1 discussion. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.55
Average grade awarded in CHEM C215A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
59%
of the 76 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 76 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.41 to 3.71.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 11 · 14.5%
- A 18 · 23.7%
- A- 16 · 21.1%
- B+ 12 · 15.8%
- B 15 · 19.7%
- B- 3 · 3.9%
- C 1 · 1.3%
- I 2 of 78
Percentages are of the 76 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NARANG, PRINEHA reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.52 | 36 | 2 | 56% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| SCHWARTZ, BENJAMIN JOEL reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.71 | 19 · | 1 | 79% | heavy | not teaching it |
| NEUHAUSER, DANIEL reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.41 | 11 · | 1 | 36% | - | not teaching it |
| FAY, THOMAS P reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.51 | 10 · | 1 | 60% | - | 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, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 4 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 8 courses long before CHEM C215A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM C215A in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 14BE, CHEM 20B, CHEM 20BH, LIFESCI 30B, MATH 3B, MATH 3C, and PHYSICS 1BH, 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, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, 90 minutes. Requisites: courses 110B, 113A, Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, with grades of C- or better. Recommended: knowledge of differential equations equivalent to Mathematics 134 or 135 or Physics 131, and of analytic mechanics equivalent to Physics 105A. Course C215A or Physics 115B with grade of C- or better is requisite to C215B. Students entering course C215A are normally expected to take course C215B in following term. Designed for chemistry students with serious interest in quantum chemistry. Postulates and systematic development of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics; expansion theorems; wells; oscillators; angular momentum; hydrogen atom; matrix techniques; approximation methods; time dependent problems; atoms; spectroscopy; magnetic resonance; chemical bonding. May be concurrently scheduled with course C115A. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open10 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 10 of 20 enrolled
Instructor
Fay, T.P.
3.53Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 76 letter gradesSeat risk
-1 discussion, all open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 1 discussion
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Open
10 seats left.
10 of 20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 21 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 10 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 Fall 2025
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 · Fay, T.P. · 10 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 10 of 20.
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.
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