<p>I have a graphic design friend who had classes with harsher grading scales like what you're asking about. </p>
<p>That kind of thing should be outlined in the syllabus, though...as in if not plainly given like his were, at least warning that final grades may be adjusted. It'd pretty [profanity deleted by moderator] to never mention it...but I guess it happens.</p>
<p>FYI: 82% in engineering is an A or A+</p>
<p>mssales, check your student handbook. the answers you're being given here are general thoughts from our own experience. your student handbook will give you the actual policies and procedures your school holds to when it comes to grading. if, after reading your student handbook, you feel the professor was still in the wrong, then approach him or her VERY respectfully and present your case, but you should realize that a syllabus is only an addendum to the student handbook, so if your student handbook contains a clause on professors setting grade standards based on a curve or there is an administrative or departmental policy in place to prevent grade inflation, then that policy would be "controlling," regardless of what your professor wrote in the syllabus. more than likely your student handbook has a disclaimer somewhere in it that says something along the lines of "these policies are subject to change at any time and where there has been an additional policy imposed by the administration or by the governing department, that policy shall be controlling"</p>
<p>I do agree your professor should have made a note of this when he went over the syllabus, but there is probably not a lot you can do now to change that. What does the syllabus actually say was the official grading scale for the class? Was one listed in the syllabus? If not, why didn't any of you ask about it? Is it possible it was mentioned when you weren't in class or were not listening?</p>