At Brown, you don’t withdraw from courses, you drop them (that’s the exact language they use - you can drop courses up until the week before finals). I’m fairly certain nobody at any school reports classes they dropped during the add/drop period and I think that’s exactly why AMCAS says “withdraw” and not “drop.” It’s also very clearly not a bankruptcy policy because there is no removal of a grade. The grade never existed in the first place.
I would ask the Brown HCO, not AMCAS.
Yup, only Brown allows this, which is how your college was identified and the advice provided to drop it given.
You have one more semester to get straight A’s. If you can’t do that, you have to start thinking of another career. You may want to go to Brown’ career center and ask about NP, PA…
My comment about grade replacement was in response to NorthernMom61’s suggestion that continuing with the class (rather than dropping) and then retaking might look better than dropping and retaking.
Normally, 12 credits are the minimum for full-time good standing. If you drop a course out of four, you may lose your standing. So check with school first before you drop a course. That is one of the reasons many students take 15~16 credits per semester to be safe.
^At 4-course/semester colleges, each course is worth 4 credits.
There’s definitely no issue with full-time status here. I forget the exact rules but one semester of 3 courses at Brown would not be an issue in that sense. The graduation requirement is only 30 courses.
At Brown, 3 courses/semester are full-time standing. Each course is only 1 credit, even for science course with lab (gen chem, orgo, biochem, phy, …).
I generally agree with @MYOS1634 in post #11. You need to figure out how to get A’s. It looks to me like you have a B average. If you can’t figure out how to improve this significantly, then you need to find another option rather than medical school.
Do you know why you are averaging B’s? I understand that premed classes are very difficult. I have seen students working very hard in premed classes. However, I know students who get A’s in them anyway.
@allyphoe
Grade replacement is not possible in med school applications, MD or DO.
For OP it is much better to drop the class and start fresh next semester, if the school allows that. Apparently Brown will allow last minute Withdrawn from the class. There is no retaking in this case. Ordinarily, a C in a class and an A in the retake will be accounted as a 3.0 at AMCAS.
IN the case of OP, if he anticipate a C in this class, he should Withdrawn from the class and take it the next time(semester or year), if he gets an A, it will be accounted for as 4.0 in AMCAS.
@artloversplus Yes, that was exactly my point.
It’s May 8th, what’d you decide OP?
It’s May 8th, what’d you decide, OP?
All I can say is this…you’ll need to do a lot better in the next 6 semesters to be competitive for medical school 
You could retake a class or 2 over the summer to boost your grades a little. It’s all about priorities. Medical schools aren’t very forgiving about grades. It’s that way for a reason. Medicine is serious business and they expect you to be focused, because that’s what saves lives.
Brown has Orgo over the summer, but OP will need some serious help (private tutor) if aiming to get A. iwannabe_Brown got the tutoring help from a grad student when taking Orgo2 at Brown.
If OP ends up with a C, there’s no point in retaking. C or better satisfies the pre-med requirement and retaking is a very low upside, very high downside scenario. Best case scenario, you’ve gotten an A everyone is expecting to see that will impress no one. Worst case scenario, you’ve wasted a class AND demonstrated once again that you can’t handle the material. Getting the necessary help and getting in A in orgo 2 is definitely the best possible outcome.
Zimmt is the professor for orgo1 (Chem0350) this Spring. He’s a great teacher…but known for giving out super-hard final exam. Hope OP not taking the final with Zimmt, his/her grade will drop at least 1 grade down (B->C, C->D), specially OP is already struggling with orgo. Other orgo professors such as Seto is much predictable and reasonable.
From this thread, one of the myth about Brown is broken. Whoever think Brown is an easy street for premed and full of grade inflation are false. We have a top student in our high school who went to Brown and point headed for premed did not finish in a med school, she changed her intent and now is in investment banking.
@Andorvw do they not all use the same exam anymore? Back in my day, all sections took the same exam regardless of who taught it. As tough as Zimmt is, I believe it was Zimmt who accused Suggs of being on acid when he came up with one of the exam practice problems because it was so hard and even Zimmt could barely figure it out.
That’s a defining moment of my Brown orgo experience. Well that and sitting down to study orgo for the MCAT and just being amazed/angry at how easy it was relative to all the crap I had to do in 35-36.