Thanks, @ucbalumnus, for the clarification. The VES looks like it is a 3.0. That plus the 2.0s you mention don’t sound like major stumbling blocks or difficult thresholds. I’d argue that there are issues other than pursuing your chosen major if you can’t meet that, especially the 2.0, although I’ve never heard of Harvard having a whole lot of grade deflation.
I always thought nursing majors were direct admit along with many, many of the engineering and CS majors.
Does seem like something every applicant should have a handle on. Still unaware of how this would apply in the LAC world but I know its an issue with large schools with limited room/resources in certain majors.
EDIT: I guess I never associated the schools mentioned in #584 as being LACs, but I guess I define LACs as SLACs for the most part as opposed to medium sized universities.