75 isn't failing, it is a "C", however it is a typical cutoff for using a course as a prerequisite for some other course. <60 is failing. Very few students act

75 isn't failing, it is a "C", however it is a typical cutoff for using a course as a prerequisite for some other course. <60 is failing. Very few students actually fail courses. In general, in my experience, grades for the courses weren't a symmetric normal distribution with a mean of 75, like it is thought. The mean is more like 83, and it was skewed toward higher grades. To answer your final question, no, I don't think the administration would care if your class average was 95%, quite the opposite. I had one professor in my undergrad who was more "old-school" - challenging coursework, no spoon-feeding, your grade was your grade and that was that. He'd regularly complain about visits from the "Center for Student Success" who complained that he was grading too harshly and fought (on behalf of specific students who went to them with complaints) for higher grades. According to my classmates, they were actually able to get their grades overriden at some level higher than he could view from his system.