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beantownpsych,
Yeah junior year really hurt my gpa because I was taking physiology, biomedicinal chemistry and physics together. I came into jr year with a 3.62. Schools wouldn't take into consideration the fact that I am a pharmaceutical sciences major when looking at my gpa? A 3.3 is considered good in my major at OSU.
I can't speak for other schools, but I applied to OSU's clinical program last year after many nice emails from my POI. She even gave me great feedback after I wasn't offered an interview. She told me the way OSU does their funding is mainly through University Fellowships and they require a 3.6 overall GPA. While they do accept students with lower GPAs, it is rare due to funding issues. In my case, I had a 3.2 (Engineering-physics major to start) with 1300 GRE, years of experience, and even a first authored paper, but was still denied. She claimed that she thought I was extremely competitive, but they had 20 other people with identical stats without the lower GPA. Unless you have something that would really stand out, then it might be tough going at Ohio State (maybe others as well).
One other piece of advice is to contact your POIs about your GPA being a barrier to admission. After a few emails with a POI from EMU, I asked her about my situation and she stated that there would be no issue in making it past the first cuts with my stats (I also increased my GRE by 90 points).
Best of luck!