Best option for perusing graduate school with a poor GPA

[G. Cuvier]

Hello everyone! 

I just graduated college with a degree in Biology with a gpa of about 2.7.  My gpa didn't end up so well because of a bunch of reasons depression, transferring schools, didn't really know I wanted to do until it was already too late among some other things. My passion is set in marine biology and have been pursuing that since I graduated. I would definitely say if college went differently I would had no problems getting the gpa I needed. I plan on going for a masters and possibly a phd. Unfortunately, all the masters programs I've seen require a 3.0 just to apply. I've read that I could get a second bachelors degree to improve this but other than that I'm not sure what I can do to get in.

[sjoh197]

There's a really good thread in the Lobby... the sub-3.0 acceptance thread, that has lots of great advice on what to do in your situation. 

[Edotdl]

Does your school have a 5th-year master's type program? From what I've heard, getting into those programs is much easier and may be more lenient about any GPA cutoffs.