I took her for Chem 30A and 30B, and she's been one of my favorite professors ever. Her lectures were always clear and she always gave out material handouts that supplemented the test. She also did really helpful review session before exams. She's also really nice to talk to!

The previous review gave the general overview of the class, so I'll just give my opinion.

Prof. Neufeldt is my favorite professor thus far. Her enthusiasm and light humor make her an avid lecturer that actually makes the topic somewhat interesting. She is also very approachable in office hours and fair when it comes to exams. The first exam is fairly easy, the second is much more difficult, and the final is in between because it's the same difficulty as the second midterm, but you get more time to think and double check your answers.
My advice would be to go to lectures for the extra credit clickers. Take good notes in lecture, then review and rewrite your notes and go to the occasional office hours. Most importantly, DO THE PROBLEM SETS, they are very similar questions to the exam.
I got an 83 on the 1st midterm, 69 on the 2nd, and almost got a perfect score on the final. I also got half the extra credit questions and I got an overall A-.

Would recommend!

Materials
You didn't need anything for this class besides the textbook. You could only get that in a bundle at the UCLA Store for near $200 and it includes a solutions manual, Pushing Electrons supplementary book, and a model kit. To save money, get the textbook another way and find a buddy with the solutions manual to do homework with. You should probably buy a model kit off of Amazon.

Grading Scheme
Midterm 1 25%
Midterm 2 25%
Final 45%
BACON 4%
Class Evaluation 1%

Grading Scale
99.0 = A+ (lol)
95.0 - 98.9 = A
90.0 - 94.9 = A-
86.0 - 89.9 = B+
82.0 - 85.9 = B
82.0 - 85.9 = B
78.0 - 81.9 = B-
74.0 - 77.9 = C+
69.0 - 73.9 = C
63.0 - 68.9 = C-
55.0 - 62.9 = D+
45.0 - 54.9 = D
35.0 - 44.9 = D-

At the end of the class, she curved down a little by adjusting the grade breaks (lower the barrier to get a certain grade), depending on how the class did overall. After that, she added in extra credit. By a little, I mean a little, like 5% at most.

Lectures
Her lectures were all right. They were interesting and she had a cute sense of humor. My only complaint is that they were too trite. There weren't enough examples given, so I had a hard time doing the homework and had to resort to the textbook for some basic stuff. But that's a rather petty complaint. She held good review sessions.

Discussions
Not mandatory. The TA would go over the week's material and do practice problems. TAs with beginning of the week discussions tended to preview the week's material and TAs with end of the week discussions tended to review. I thought it better to go to end of the week discussions.

Homework
Simple. We didn't have any assigned, but it existed. She would write down a ton of problems on the board each day. You had to do these in order to get practice for the clicker questions the following class. She also had weekly problem sets and their answer keys made available, and these were the ones you wanted to master in order to do well on the exams. Simply put, she provided us a lot of resources, not to mention those of the TAs.

Exams
Midterm 1 Median: 80
Midterm 2 Median: 58
Her practice exams were a good indication of the format of her exams, but they're hard regardless, especially because they're 50 minute ones. I got a D+ on the first one, a C- on the second, and an 80% on the final to end with a C+ in the class.

BACON
This was easy. We had six tutorials, of which the four best scores would be taken, so once you finished four, you were essentially done.

Extra Credit
Her extra credit came in the form of two clicker questions at the start of every class. If you were late, you would miss the questions. 55 questions were offered, and you would get 0.5% extra credit for every five questions, with up to 5% total extra credit possible, so you had a five-question leeway. But even that was not enough, because these questions were hard. It wasn't really the material, since you would know it if you did the homework, but rather the time. She would give us a minute to do each question. You just needed to stay calm.

Office Hours
She held two 1.5 office hours per week and was super helpful during them. Everyone went, so you didn't have one-on-one answering time, but everyone got their chance to ask a question.

Pro-Tips
- Study everything from the problem sets.
- Keep up with everything. You don't get any second chances in this class. That's how I ended up with a C+.
- Use your model kit, especially to understand stereochemistry! Dashes and wedges are tricky little buggers.

tl;dr Take Neufeldt. She provides you a lot of resources to succeed, but you're not going to be spoonfed an A if you don't do well on your exams.

The BEST professor I've had at UCLA so far. With the blizzard of problem sets, review sessions, office hours, practice exams, and overall overwhelming amount of material she had for us, I was astonished she was even able to her own doctor/professor shizzle wizzle. Along with that: clear writing (sometimes I wouldn't even need my glasses to see), extra credit clicker questions, and straightforward exams (maybe a trick question here and there, but if you know your material, you're fine).

Most of the reviews here are accurate, and she is definitely a professor you should take, if given the chance.

On a side note, it's kinda too bad she's not teaching Chem 30A anymore ;___; (or so I heard) but it's likely whatever she teaches she'll pour her heart into as well.

The best professor I've had here at UCLA. To the point, detailed, succinct, nuanced, awesome teacher. Course is organized well, tests are clear, massive amount of supplementary material (which is optional) and office hours to help. Truly a great teacher of 30A, take her if you really want to learn OChem.

I had Professor Neufeldt in what I believe was her first year teaching at UCLA, and I thought it was pretty good considering it was her first time. Her lectures were pretty clear, although it was mostly by the book. So if you feel a need to skip class, then reading the book will actually fill you in basically.

Her grading scheme was 25% each midterm for two of them, 49% final, and 1% for submitting the teacher's evaluation, although I think she doesn't do this anymore. She also had "extra credit" for participating in discussion, but my TA said they weren't giving extra credit to anyone so I don't know about that.

Her midterms were okay. They weren't too difficult but not that easy. She gives out problem sets for each chapter, and assigns recommended homework problems. If you do all those and understand them, you're in pretty good shape for the midterms. The final was the same way, but she tested a lot on past material. Her exams also had an extra credit question worth a couple of points, so it was possible to get over 100% on the tests.

The quarter I took it was filled with people who had failed 30A the quarter before, therefore the average was incredibly high for both midterms. The first midterm had an average of 83%, and the second one was about a 75%.

All in all, her class wasn't as bad as other professors that I've heard about, but the grade you get is reflected in how much work and time you put in, so study hard, and it's definitely possible to get an A+ in her class.