I once looked into med school.
It is set up so the primary gateway is your undergrad GPA. If it isn’t sufficient, then no extenuating circumstance, life experience, or other skills are considered. From what I was told, you could have multiple advanced degrees with high marks - only your undergrad coursework is considered and it’s the same for Physician Assistant programs.
My BS GPA wasn’t all that great for several reasons. One of the schools I looked at basically told me the only option was to go back and get a couple more bachelors degrees with very high GPAs and if I got enough to average out with my first, then they might consider me.
I don’t know if this has changed, but if it’s still the case, one can easily see how it would preclude a huge swath of the population who might otherwise consider a medical career and who are more likely to have the skills this doctor finds wanting in his students.
Pooh. A guy in my ORganic Chem class got in with a “C-“ in Organic. Of course, he claimed his grandmother was Apache.