I'm right there in the little boat with jimjones and biophysicsbadass. I'm now at the tail-end of my 2nd round of applications. Graduated from college with a 3.2 and a 33 MCAT 11/11/11. Nobody was interested. I had one interview at my state school and a prompt rejection afterwards.
After a year of genetics research, I went back to grad school and will be getting an MPH in May with a 3.8 So, this year's application should be much better, right?
Well, guess what? Again, one interview at my state school. Although it was MUCH earlier in the cycle (October) I'm still waiting to hear back. Probably will be waitlisted.
Bad grades in college continue to haunt you. Of course, what really killed me is the "trend." You can make up for poor grades by showing that you were putting forth the effort to improve yourself academically. If your senior year average is noticeably better than your freshman year average, adcoms will cut you some slack. Unfortunately for me, too much partying/not enough studying slowly caught up with my. My year-by-year GPA broke down as follows: 4.0 / 3.6 / 3.0 / 2.6 with a smattering of C's, two W's, one D and one F. I graduated on academic probabation (I was honored to find out that I was among a select few students to make both the Dean's list and the academic probation list!)
Sadly for me, my MCAT scores expire this year. So, if I don't get in to CU this year (Please, God!) it'll be back to the books and time to dust off the long-abandoned portions of my brain where OChem and Physics are stored...Good luck to everybody and hopefully somebody can learn from my mistakes!
Bottom line: Party EARLY in college and then make up for it in later years, not the other way around!