Students who have taken 1, 2 or even 3 gaps are not considered “non-traditional” any longer. Gap years are the norm, not the exception.
You seem to believe that your daughter will only be compared against students who are applying directly from undergrad–and that just isn’t the case.
I don’t think you understand exactly what is meant by a non-traditional students. A non-traditional student is someone whose educational history is not HS–>college w/ full time attendance. It’s someone whose educational pathway was interrupted for military service or child-rearing. It’s someone who entered college at an older age, or who was only able to attend college part-time over the course of numerous years due to other obligations that required them to work in order to afford their education. It’s someone who has finished college and had a career that was unrelated to medicine. It’s someone who has earned an advanced degree (like a PhD) before applying to medical school. It’s someone had a low GPA in college, or who had dropped out, and needed to do significant transcript repair to demonstrate they have matured and have found their direction in life.
Your daughter is a traditional med school applicants and so is almost everyone else, even if they have taken 1- 4 gap years after graduation.