@OldFashioned1 - well, of course if someone has a low GPA, they’d better counterbalance it with other things, the least of which is a high MCAT (as is indicated in the tables I linked). A quick look at those linked acceptances tables suggest that the MCAT is probably more important than the GPA. I do not think that the low GPA/High MCAT scores are necessarily at the elites. There can be many reasons for those disparities.
Separate but interesting factoid: Don’t know the test scores or GPAs. but Xavier in New Orleans has historically been quite successful in their students’ acceptances to medical, dental, veterinary, optometry, podiatry, etc. school. It is a HSBC Roman catholic school. http://www.xula.edu/premed/
And here is the table of the AA applicants acceptances for med school https://www.aamc.org/download/321514/data/factstablea24-2.pdf High MCAT seems to trump GPA.