I attended Columbia for my undergraduate and am familiar with the difficulty of premed coursework. Her GPA is her GPA regardless of the university she attends. Most of my friends who applied this cycle and were successful had a cGPA and sGPA > 3.7 and an MCAT > 516. My personal belief is that the name can help you *slightly*, so a 3.7 - 3.8 GPA can be somewhat forgiven if the MCAT score is high enough. My GPA fell in this range and I have had a successful cycle and have been accepted to schools with GPA averages far above mine in the 3.9 range. However, a 3.2 sGPA is quite low for MD programs. One pre-med student I knew from Columbia who had a 3.2 sGPA was advised to not apply to medical school, and the committee did not write him a letter.