<p>Unless your school has rampant grade inflation (…like mine) a 3.0 isn’t a BAD GPA. It just means that you may have to put a tad bit more work into your other application stuff (for Harvard specifically, that’d be the CommonApp essay, the Supplemental Essay, the Interview, some good extracurriculars, and SAT scores [some emphasis on the SAT IIs here]). If you’re a great writer and an interesting person, it won’t gimp you THAT much (I hate to pull out the uber-conservative point here, but it’ll mean even less if you’ve got a minority background).</p>
<p>Don’t worry. Grade-wise, you’re still in the range.</p>