Oh man - when I’m in a decent mood, absolute criticism just makes me laugh and want to try even harder.  I decided to google “med school 2.4 gpa” just for fun-z’s (spelling?) and I found this in a forum:
“But my overall gpa is really low, about 68 percent (2.4 gpa), and for this new program RCSI is only asking for a 2.2. So this school would be pretty much the only one who would take me.”

With an academic record like that are you really sure Medicine is for you? If yopu can’t keep up in undergrad, you will be left FAR behind in med school. Also, will you be able to pass your USMLEs? If not, you will have paid an absolute fortune for a degree that is not worth the price of the paper it is printed on. Also, residency programs will look at your WHOLE academic record. If they see you could barely get by at a middle of the road college, they will be suspicious of any exemplary grades coming out of Ireland.

As a practising MD, my best advice for you is to fill out an application for a job at the local muffler shop or 7-11. It sounds like you and minimum wage would be a good fit.

Seems to me like maybe some of the very same doctors that stopped learning twenty years ago and throw “Continued Education” to the wind might also be some of the forces that are trying to keep the general public out of the prestigious M.D. tract.  Whine and complain all you want about how NP’s and PA’s are going to be doing all the “doctor” work in ten years - but you guys are the ones that are shifting the system.

Let’s say I squandered my college opportunity and don’t deserve to go to med school because of my lack of hard work (I don’t think that).  How about the kids who don’t have parents that can pay for college, or a high school that can deliver the knowledge and experience to ace the standardized tests.  Or the kids who don’t have support back at home or anyone rooting for them.  Or… parents who can afford to buy them books when they are little, even though they love knowledge and reading.

Okay, now I’m rambling on, but still:  it’s not that I’m appalled people think this way, it’s just really funny to see somebody boisterous enough to put it into words.  Everybody deserves a chance.  Maybe the school wasn’t right for him.  Maybe his dad died.  Maybe he just didn’t realize he wanted to be a doctor until just now.