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After being rejected from every medical school this past cycle, I'm still going to attempt (even more rigorously) to get into an osteopathic school next fall. However, I am extremely concerned with previous grades. I attended school "A" for three years before transferring to school "B" for two years to obtain my B.S. in Chemistry. At school "A" I received an F in an upper level inorganic chemistry course. However, at school "B", I retook the equivalent course (it was actually 400 level at school "B" and 300 level at school "A") and received an A. The problem here is that even though I took an equivalent course at school "B" and received an A in the class, it cannot replace the F that I obtained at school "A". So, in summary, the F obtained from school "A" will be part of the transcript I send to AACOMAS and will obviously hinder my GPA but so will the A that I received from school "B" (from a different transcript of course). Would it be necessary to cover this in my personal statement for the next application cycle? Are there any solutions to this problem? It should be noted that the F I received originally occurred during a rough personal period in my life and I turned a new leaf at school "B" earning multiple awards from the chemistry department and maintaining a 3.5 GPA. I am just concerned this one F I obtained will haunt me forever. Any advice????