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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are his GPA and MCAT?  Clinical experience?  Research?  How many published papers?  Use the gap year to boost any one of his weak points.  [/quote]
For target schools: Overall GPA I believe is higher, [b]science GPA meets or exceeds, MCAT at median or a little below, depending on school.[/b] Has clinical, lacking research and publications.

What clinical experience is viewed most favorably? [/quote]

Get someone in med admissions consulting to give her feedback, or have her ask her school's premed advisor what happened. 
For example, MCAT "at or below" median: if the MCAT is 509-512, the majority of students with this MCAT range need a gap year if not two, unless they have a demographic hook(yes those are a real thing for med school). That score is the "median" for admitted kids because they all have gaps with lots of other impressive things to make up for that ho-hum MCAT, whereas your student has the same MCAT yet nothing outstanding. Those schools understand that they generally get students in a certain MCAT range--they want the best in that range. Non-gap year success stories are almost always 520+ with a 3.9+ science GPA. 515-519 is a gray area for non-gap. It works out sometimes. Below 513 is a no-go for no gap year without hooks. Every undergrad has their own stats on this, which premed advisors use to advise whther to gap and what to do with the gap; I am glazing over a lot of details to make the advice as generic as possible. 
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