<p>You’re sure the actual median grade they gave was a C? Not a C+, not a C if you put all the withdrawals in, not a 73% which equated to a B-, not a 73% overall but the lowest test got dropped or something, but a flat out C? Less than half of the people got a grade C+ or higher?</p>
<p>If so then your professor is a jerk and that’s pretty rare and you’re not going to have many classes like that. Most classes should have an average of B or B-, with an occasional C+ average in really awful classes. C average is awful. There was only one class I ever had that I suspect may have had a C average, and that was including withdrawals (which I count as worse than a C), the average grade that was assigned was probably right between a B- and a C+ (with very high withdrawal rate). </p>
<p>Also, where do you go that all classes are graded on the same scale? That seems beyond silly.</p>