<p>for the most part, the grades that count are grades in your prep work for grad school. For example, a prospective physics grad student should have great grades in math and physics. An anthro grad should might be judged on language skills in addition to social science work. </p>
<p>The catch is that a huge discrepancy between grad prep courses and the rest will be a big red flag. </p>
<p>It bears repeating: Professional school admissions are usually rather formulaic, at least for a first screen, so GPA and GRE/LSAT/GMAT etc. scores loom large. Grad school admissions is much more holistic. Usually the decisions are made by a faculty committee, so the process can be idiosyncratic from school to school, year to year within a school, but at the same time, much less formulaic and much more inclusive of all sorts of bits of data.</p>