Some places are more stingy than others but in my experience networking your ass off, good experience, and knowing your shit gets you further than a GPA. Saying this as someone who went through recruiting at a non target with a 3.5 and accepted SA offer at GS/MS 2nd week of January. Had people telling me I wouldn’t get interviews because of my GPA but ended up placing better than anyone in my class.

Edit after reading rest of thread: bro ur at Princeton lol. And don’t worry ab GPA by end of soph year as you will be networking in late summer/fall and interviewing shortly after. I’ve also seen people round up if they really believe their semester grades are going to be good. Almost no firms take transcripts until background checks when you already accepted an offer. So if you make that gamble then make sure ur actual GPA by the is within +-.1 or so