Do engineering grad schools care about grades in GenEd classes at all?

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<p>I'm coming up on finals and I could care less about the final for one of my GenEd classes. I find it interesting enough that I managed to hold onto an A for pretty much the entire semester, but I'm struggling to find a reason to care about doing well in this class, considering my other core science and engineering classes are obviously more important.</p>

<p>Let's say I slack off on this final and get a B+ instead of an A. Would that drop in GPA have any significance at all for the purposes of graduate school? Would there be any benefit to getting an A?</p>

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<p>An A always looks better, regardless of what class it is in. But, you should shoot for the best GPA overall, so if not worrying about this GenEd leads to you doing better in the engineering courses, then don’t worry too much about the GenEd. You just need to make the optimal decision about this, not make a choice based off of any disinterest or laziness.</p>