How irresponsible is it to focus on employable skills at the expense of lower grades?

I guess it helps with some context and depends on the field you're in so here is some more info.

I'm in Media Production at my university and have finished all of my relevant courses. Now what's left are electives/liberal studies that do not add to my expertise in any way, skill-wise. Instead of developing my skills in my area of media, I'm expected to focus on these courses while risking an underdeveloped portfolio for post-grad and my required internship. Note, I am not failing any courses and the post-grad programs I'm applying to require a portfolio and not high grades.

Would it be very irresponsible to make my portfolio and hard skills my primary focus while risking lower [but passing] grades? I would really appreciate an outside perspective.

Submitted September 27, 2017 at 08:38AM by CanaryButt http://ift.tt/2hzbSb4