U of D Mercy will only look at GPA of 20 years ago-anyone else have same exp?

I am new to this site and this is my first post. I was looking into the U of D Mercy 2nd degree program. I got my first bachelors over 20 yrs ago. I was a lot younger then and ended up with only a 2.33 GPA. I recently found out that U of D Mercy won't allow me to do the 2nd degree program because you have to have a 2.5 GPA. I would need to take 9 pre-req classes before applying - all biology, chemistry, and math. (I would need to do this for ANY 2nd degree program as it has been so long since I got my bachelors) I have taken a biology and math class so far and have a 4.0 in both. But U of D won't even consider them or any of the other 7 I will be taking because my first bachelors ended up with 2.33. I know they have a 2.5 GPA requirement to weed out people who they don't think can make it, but I am a toally different person than I was 20 years ago. And I believe the grades I got in my first semester of pre-reqs (while working 40 hours a week and having 2 kids and a husband) shows this. I told the admissions person that I needed to take 9 classes and was sure my combined GPA would be well above 2.5 but she said it only mattered what I had from my first bachelors. Has anyone else come across this? Any advice? Thanks so much and sorry for so long a post. I've never seen this situation on any forum before.