COM SCI 1
Freshman Computer Science Seminar
Grades
3.97
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 584 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
56%
99% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 584 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 3.96 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 574 · 98.3%
- B 6 · 1.0%
- C 3 · 0.5%
- F 1 · 0.2%
- P 745 of 1,339
- NP 8 of 1,339
- S 2 of 1,339
Percentages are of the 584 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and satisfactory (S).
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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MILLSTEIN, TODD D reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 3.99 | 310 | 3 | 100% | very light | not teaching it |
| GAFNI, ELIEZER M reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 274 | 1 | 97% | very light | not teaching it |
| LU, SONGWU reviews ↗ | P/NP | 257 P/NP | 1 | - | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
Seminar, one hour. Introduction to department resources and principal topics and key ideas in computer science and computer engineering. Students create critical summaries of seminar talks. P/NP grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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