“Exactly, I am more impressed with someone who had a 3.0 GPA who financed their education by working through college, than someone who lived on loans and got a 4.0.”
Are you still impressed when the 3.0 student fails to get into med school and the one with the 4.0 does get in ?
And even if they both get into med school, who do you want to be treating you, the one who borrowed even more in med school so he could devote more time to studies or the one who borrowed less so he could have a small loan but did not learn as much about medicine ?
That's a pretty big assumption - that someone who worked through med school wouldn't be as good a doctor as someone who just took out more loans.
Also, is it physically possible, time wise, to get through med school and still work? I don't know.