How do withdrawls affect medical school chances?

<p>I am in my fourth semester in college (Fall Sophomore), and I am striving to get into medical school. I don't want to go into details but I had to drop a class during my 2nd semester. I took 3 summer courses which I regret in some aspects, but don't regret in others. Because of circumstances I had to do a full withdrawal from the summer term and come back for the fall. I will have to take major science courses for the third time. It's embarrassing, but I'm not giving up because its what I want to do. This is going to be a lot of Ws on my transcript which I know is not good. However, I talked to my advisor about why I was struggling, and she told me that I can do a medical withdrawal. She said it can count towards my spring course and all my summer courses. She says I qualify because I was diagnosed with diabetes the end of my first semester. I went through a lot then seeing numerous psychologist, psychiatrist, and groups and taking tons of medicines for mental health. When I was diagnosed after being hospitalized when I almost went into a coma, they figured that it had a huge impact on many things. Ever since I have been trying to get my diabetes under control but it has affected me with the highs, lows, injections, and energy. I had to miss some classes just to get my sugars right. All of this including the mental and financial parts took a toll on my academics. My question is that how will this affect my medical school chances with withdrawals or even medical withdrawals?</p>

<p>My diabetes is getting in control and I should be good so I should do better for now on.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance for your help and reading</p>

<p>Repeated withdrawals from the same class will be viewed as a red flag to the adcomm. Withdrawal from all courses during a term will also be construed as red flag. You will need to explain your situation somewhere in your secondaries and offer adcomms an assurance that you have your health issues under control. (Your best assurance will be to have no more Ws for the rest of your undergrad career.)</p>

<p>In some cases college will issue a W for a student failing a course in middle of a semester. You must not led the med school believe your Ws are in that category. Per your college can help you by labeling those are for medical reasons. </p>