<<<
And also, it is not extremely difficult to get into medical school with 2 C’s and 2 F’s seeing as I spoke to an admissions counselor today from a medical school I am planning on applying to and he explained that they look at your overall GPA and grades in classes required for medical school as admission factors and that goes for the majority of medical schools nowadays.
[QUOTE=""]
[/QUOTE]
which med school did you speak to? I think you either misheard or the person didn’t communicate well.
Your cum GPA and your BCPM GPA are what is looked at. If your GPAs are not high enough, your app will not even make it thru the first down-selection (which is electronic) and human eyes will never see your app.
I am very familiar with the med school app process. It’s something that I’ve been studying deeply for the past 10 years. I have a child in med school as well…at UAB Med. I have also been advising/helping premeds and their parents for the past 5-7 years.
All hope for you is not lost, though. You could, if necessary, apply to DO schools which not only allow grade replacement, but are more lenient with GPAs and MCAT scores.
if you’re determined to go to a MD school, then you have to dilute the impact of those grades if you can’t get the CC to do a medical withdrawal. That means…take as many classes that you can between now and college graduation to bump your GPA…if you can, take BCPM classes since those are two-fers. This may include taking summer classes as well. You will not likely be able to apply between junior and senior years. That is fine…you’ll do a gap year.
The blessing is that IF you can get your GPA up to 3.6+, THEN med schools will be more lenient in regards to those CC grades BECAUSE med schools are lenient when there has been a lot of TIME between bad grades and good grades. However, your app will never see HUMAN eyes if your GPA doesn’t meet the thresholds to get thru the first electronic filters.
Med schools receive thousands and thousands of apps, and they do not have time/man-power to read thru each app…so they rely on electronic systems to filter out apps that don’t make the cut. They individualize the thresholds by gender and race, so that a URM’s app will go thru with (say) a 3.5 GPA and 507 MCAT, but an Asian male student’s app might not. Then once the an app makes it thru that first line filter, then human eyes are looking at the apps. (exception: when a student does a post-bacc at a school that has an agreement with a med school, then that app may get hand-pulled so that it doesn’t gets filtered out.)
Either way, you need to become a more serious student. Your high school GPA suggests that you may not have what it takes to get thru the premed prereqs. I’m not trying to be mean, this is just the way it can be. If you don’t have a strong math and science foundation from high school, then everything will be 3 times harder for you. My son went to a private high school; one that was very strong in all subjects. He graduated with a 4.6 GPA. He got 5’s on all his APs (except AP English Comp, which was a quick self-study…he didn’t take the actual class…he got a 4). I’m just telling you this to give you an idea of the type of student that can make it thru and not get weeded out.
However, rarely there are students who “blossom” in college and make it thru. Maybe you’ll be one of those. 
Again, go to the CC with medical documentation in hand, and speak to the “higher ups” there…not just the folks at the front desks. You would probably need the dean of students (or similar) to advocate for you and perhaps sign off on the medical withdrawal. Get a parent involved as well, particularly one with good negotiating skills.