Retaking courses

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I'm in my last year of undergrad in Canada. I took two gap years in the middle of undergrad, and will be writing my MCAT this summer before applying to schools internationally next year.

Due to a variety of reasons, I haven't had an academically-efficient start to my last winter semester, and I expect to finish my semester with very poor passing grades in 2 of my 5 winter courses.

The winter course drop deadline is at the end of this week, and I'm considering whether to complete two poor grades, or drop them and complete my bachelors as a part-time student in an extra year. A middle-way option might be to complete them anyway, and then take an extra-year to redo these two courses while also taking additional courses to perhaps improve my GPA.

Could I please get some feedback about which path to take? I plan to apply as a Canadian student to the US and other countries.

Thank you all in advance!
 
Withdraw: better than a C. As a Canadian, prevailing wisdom is that you need to be a superstar to get a US MD acceptance. Also: don't go for a Caribbean Crapshoot. It may leave you up a creek, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and unable to practice medicine.
 
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