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Hello all, I am posting this question because I have concerns about 1) my GPA, and 2) how to structure future academic course work. My majors GPA (economics, maths, stats) is 3.96, and my cumulative is about 3.82. As it stands, the discrepancy is projected to grow even more. As far as I know, the cumulative GPA is the only GPA calculation that goes in my graduate school application. (But of course, there's the transcript) Now, my school has a pretty heavy core, and I've noticed a general trend in my academic records: I have been doing worse and worse in my core humanities classes(B/B+), but better and better in my major classes (A/A-), despite the fact that I am pretty aggressively taking more advanced major classes (but doing the bare minimum for the others). I really don't like the core classes, but if I am to graduate, I have no choice. Here is the question: Should I cut back on my major classes in rigor and workload so that I have more time to do better on my humanities core classes? How important is my overall track record vs. taking more advanced (graduate) major courses? (Think an applicant with 2 grad courses + 3.83, or 4 grad courses + 3.77) This is probably a minor point, but I am trying to gauge how important that extra (hopefully A) grad math/econ course would be. I wanted to be careful, since I would be taking it on margin (in terms of credits). Thanks a bunch!