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Minimum Requirements

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Hey everyone,
When schools talk about their minimum requirements, do they factor in graduate grades in addition to undergrad. I know AACOMAS does an undergrad science, grad science and overall science and same with cumulative. So is it the overall cumulative and science they are looking for or just undergrad? Because of this grade replacement fiasco, my undergrad gpa went down to a 2.9 and science to a 2.8 which means I don't meet the minimum requirements for most of the schools.
I am doing an MBS/SMP currently and will graduate with a 3.65 gpa (most probably)
I also have a 506 on the MCAT.
So my question is, do I just not apply to schools whose requirements I don't meet? Because that's going to leave me with not many places to apply.
 
DO schools count graduate GPA into cGPA.

Hey everyone,
When schools talk about their minimum requirements, do they factor in graduate grades in addition to undergrad. I know AACOMAS does an undergrad science, grad science and overall science and same with cumulative. So is it the overall cumulative and science they are looking for or just undergrad? Because of this grade replacement fiasco, my undergrad gpa went down to a 2.9 and science to a 2.8 which means I don't meet the minimum requirements for most of the schools.
I am doing an MBS/SMP currently and will graduate with a 3.65 gpa (most probably)
I also have a 506 on the MCAT.
So my question is, do I just not apply to schools whose requirements I don't meet? Because that's going to leave me with not many places to apply.