I am a second year medical student (allopathic, MD) in the United States. I can tell you for sure that medical admissions committees take tough circumstances into account and are willing to forgive some past mistakes if you can prove to them you have moved beyond those mistakes.
A 3.5 GPA would be adequate to get into medical school-- not stellar, but with a solid MCAT score (30-33) and an otherwise good application you would stand very good odds of getting in. Unfortunately you mentioned a 2.0 somewhere. If that is your cumulative GPA, it just has to come up. If you apply with a 2.0 to US MD schools I guarantee you will not receive a single interview. It's just way too low.
Luckily you will have plenty of opportunities to pull that up at a four year college. Medical schools tend to look down on community college credit, so try to get yourself into a four-year school if at all possible and focus totally on doing well with that and enjoying the college experience. I know you might have to work to help pay for it, but remember that if you want to be a doctor school comes first. I agree with the above poster, your family needs to step in to solve some of their own problems. If you spend all your time dealing with their issues you will not be able to handle your own.
As for getting a college to drop grades from a semester, don't bother. You will be applying through the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) and they will require all your grades. Check with your premed advisor, but that probably will not fly.
Also look into osteopathic (DO) schools. They tend to be more forgiving of GPA troubles, and if you pull stuff together and do very well in the rest of your college career they might be the way to a family practice career. DOs are legally equivalent to MDs in the United States, and realistically we learn the exact same things. DOs just learn OMM (tissue manipulation) and supposedly more of a focus on holistic medicine in addition to the traditional subjects.
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