"I always tell Loren that the world is run by C students."

The report card showed him to be a solid C student.

They may be a C student, but they want a brighter future.

But what does that mean in a genre dominated by C students and worse?

It's a hopeful note for every C student resigned to a career of pumping gas.

"My problem is that I'm a total C student," he said.

It's like the C student who turns in a brilliant research paper: one assumption is that the work is not his own.

Says her history teacher: "Maybe she thinks she'll be more cool as a C student.

The president of my university, he indicated that he thought that C students ran the world.

He's a C student now but he's going to be a B student.