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Best of luck to you! My personal advice: I personally feel as if in one area of your application you do not succeed in, it is important to succeed in the others. For instance, I had really bad GRE scores (less than 300 total, and a 4.0 for analytical writing), however I had a really good GPA, strong letters of rec, research experience, wrote an honors thesis, will be graduating with highest honors, and have over 150 hours of undergrad observation hours, etc. etc. So, similar to what a previous poster said, rather than try to retake classes that grad programs may not even consider when calculating your GPA, improve other things where you can. Study hard for the GRE, like intensely. Find somewhere to shadow with an SLP. So I knew I was a bad standardized test taker, and that I was not going to study for the GRE. So I made sure I did the best I could everywhere else, I knew I couldn't just do average with my extracurriculars. Yes, I was waitlisted at 5/6 schools I applied to and rejected to 1/6, but I was just accepted off the waitlist from my top choice yesterday! If you do have to reapply, be sure to communicate with either past professors or if your past school has a career resource center. Show them your past essays for the schools you applied to, and talk to them about how you previously applied to grad school but did not have the best GPA. Talk to them about what you did to improve your application and what may have caused you to have a lower GPA the first time around for the application process. As far as a back up plan, you could become an SLPA, an ABA assistant, spend time working somewhere else such as a server while shadowing an SLP, take time off to reflect, work, travel, figure out who you are, etc. It'll all work out in the end. I would recommend applying to more than 2 schools in the future if needed if your application is not as strong. Try newer programs that may be out of state.