UNAS 1199
Gateway to the Sciences Seminar · 9 instructors on record · 58 sections
Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than almost every one of the BC classes we hold.
The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.
How is this worked out?
That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.
How is this worked out?
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.
One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.
How is this worked out?
Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.
This Gateway Advising course is taught during both the Fall and Spring semesters for Freshmen. Gateway allows students to persevere within the STEM majors, explore various careers and paths, and develop a sense of community at Boston College. The Gateway Program is designed to help prepare students to take the next step toward their professional development.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 2 of the 9 rows carry a mark saying so.
| Rank | Instructor | Curve | Easiness | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douglas WarnerDirector of Laboratories · Biology | 9596 raw · 10 records | 99+6 to the score | 4th | 9224 ratings · all classes |
| 2 | Nathaniel HartmannAssistant Professor of the Practice · Chemistry | 9093 raw · 10 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | —no page |
| 3 | Charles WisemanComputer Science fewer records | 9294 raw · 4 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | 9816 ratings · all classes |
| 4 | Ismael FofanaBiology | 8590 raw · 10 records | 99+6 to the score | 1st | —no page |
| 5 | Regan BernhardLecturer · Psychology and Neuroscience fewer records | 9093 raw · 4 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | 887 ratings · all classes |
| 6 | Jeffrey LamoureuxPsychology | 8792 raw · 4 records | 97+5 to the score | 0th | 8041 ratings · all classes |
| 7 | Heather OlinsBiology | 8388 raw · 10 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | 7833 ratings · all classes |
| 8 | Jaclyn FordLecturer · Psychology and Neuroscience Provisional | 8086 raw · 2 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | —no page |
| 9 | Sean MacEvoyDistinguished Senior Lecturer · Psychology and Neuroscience | 7884 raw · 4 records | 99+6 to the score | 0th | 3425 ratings · all classes |
1 of 9 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.
How this board is built and ordered
Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.
That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.
The line
All 13 items · means across 58 recordsBars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.
What each item asks
- Explains Clearly
- The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
- Available
- The instructor was available for help outside of class.
- Motivating
- The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
- Sparks Interest
- The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
- Organized
- The course was well organized.
- Clear Goals
- The learning objectives for the course were clear.
- Useful Later
- What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
- Assignments
- Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
- Fast Feedback
- I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
- Useful Feedback
- The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
- Workload
- How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
- Challenge
- The course was intellectually challenging.
- Attendance
- Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.
Why these numbers are curved
Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
58 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather Olins | Spring 2026 | 01 | 84 | 72 | — |
| Douglas Warner | Spring 2026 | 02 | 96 | 91 | 20 |
| Jaclyn Ford | Spring 2026 | 03 | 84 | 74 | 20 |
| Ismael Fofana | Spring 2026 | 04 | 95 | 75 | 20 |
| Nathaniel Hartmann | Spring 2026 | 05 | 88 | 73 | 20 |
| Charles Wiseman | Spring 2026 | 06 | 100 | 83 | 20 |
| Sean MacEvoy | Spring 2026 | 07 | 80 | 70 | 20 |
| Heather Olins | Fall 2025 | 01 | 83 | 74 | 40 |
| Douglas Warner | Fall 2025 | 02 | 93 | 83 | 20 |
| Jaclyn Ford | Fall 2025 | 03 | 88 | 80 | 20 |
| Ismael Fofana | Fall 2025 | 04 | 96 | 86 | 20 |
| Nathaniel Hartmann | Fall 2025 | 05 | 88 | 75 | 20 |
| Charles Wiseman | Fall 2025 | 06 | 94 | 74 | 20 |
| Sean MacEvoy | Fall 2025 | 07 | 78 | 60 | 20 |
| Heather Olins | Spring 2025 | 01 | 85 | 83 | 20 |
| Douglas Warner | Spring 2025 | 02 | 100 | 98 | 20 |
| Regan Bernhard | Spring 2025 | 03 | 89 | 76 | 20 |
| Ismael Fofana | Spring 2025 | 04 | 91 | 91 | 20 |
| Nathaniel Hartmann | Spring 2025 | 05 | 92 | 87 | — |
| Charles Wiseman | Spring 2025 | 06 | 90 | 74 | — |
| Sean MacEvoy | Spring 2025 | 07 | 85 | 84 | 20 |
| Heather Olins | Fall 2024 | 01 | 86 | 76 | 20 |
| Douglas Warner | Fall 2024 | 02 | 97 | 91 | 20 |
| Regan Bernhard | Fall 2024 | 03 | 92 | 73 | 20 |
| Ismael Fofana | Fall 2024 | 04 | 89 | 82 | 20 |
Showing the first 25.
How to read this board
Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.