W or C?

OK, I just missed a deadline in an accelerated biology course which means at this point if the professor doesn’t allow any extensions (she was very adamant about no extensions at the beginning of the course) the best grade I can get is a C even if I ace the rest including the finals.
I’m trying to keep a 3.9 GPA for a scholarship and a possibility of going to grad school in the future so I’m thinking if she’s going to be a hard *ss about it I’d rather withdraw than get a C. It’s a core class but I can retake it during the Fall.
Do 1 or 2 W’s look terrible on a transcript? (I kind of withdrew from an art class last semester so this would be the 2nd) Not that I have much of a choice at this point but it would be nice to hear from anyone who’s had experience with something like this :confused: Never thought I’d be literally panicking over a grade but here I am…