Taking classes at a community college will not only improve your GPA, it will give you an improved self confidence if you experience some success.
Most have about 60 …but you have to look at each college to see.
Choose a couple of community colleges and print out their requirements for an Associates Degree in the subject that you think you would like to major in. Then match that with your own transcripts. How many classes would you need to take to complete that Associates Degree? How many new ones would you need to take?
Most Associates Degrees are about 60 semester hours of credit, but depending on how many Ds and Fs you have, and how many other courses you are missing, you might find that you need to be at a CC for more than a year before transferring elsewhere.
You will not like what comes next …
You should go back home to regain your health and if the international experience is still attractive, you should look at a different country for a degree and hope you could use the funding provided by your parents to attend a graduate school in the US. And that assumes that you can excel at your latest school. The transfer to a different US school will only work at schools that are hopelessly middling in nature.
There are questions about your story in terms of finances. Were you parents paying for your studies all along, or did you benefit from financial aid for the first two years? Why did not you seek a leave of absence to deal with your mental issues without the pressures of studies?
Regardless of the circumstances, the facts are pretty simple. You messed up the chances of obtaining a degree through the proper channels, and the community college route will hardly help you. Your previous record will not be erased, and bringing up the mental issues will simply make further admissions even more complicated. The schools, although they visibly extend all kind of courtesies to people like that nutcase who teaches at PSU_Albington, are not overly keen in being charitable with their paying customers.
There are better avenues for you than the US.
I’m sure this varies depending on the school…but usually after a suspension for poor grads, and rhen a second one…the second one means expulsion…with a no return to that school policy. This happened to a family member.
This family member took a number of years off, and then went to a community college to show he could actually do well…and he did. He didn’t have to worry about the number of transfer credits because he failed more courses than he passed. Did one year at the CC and transferred to a four year school where he completed his bachelors degree at age 32.