system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
During graduate admissions, would you choose a candidate with an amazing research project, and references, but a okayish GPA, or another with an okayish research project, good references, but excellent GPA?

What's the protocol?
gpt
Amazing research project and references, as long as the GPA is still "good". It depends what you mean by okayish.

If the GPA is "bad" then they'd probably be screened out before anybody even looks at the other stuff.