Hello Everyone! I just want to thank you all again for the tremendous amount of advice and support. I have a little update incase any of you are interested. So my school does our unweighted gpa out of 4.5 and weighted out of 6. I did not know this before since they keep our GPAs a secret until you are a senior. My gpa before the F grade was inputted was a 4.4573. After the F my grade dropped down to 4.3778. I’m not sure what that is in 4.0 scale but I am genuinely surprised my grade did not drop more. I have decided to take the course online and so far I’m doing decently well (again I’m only on the 3rd chapter and the beginning chapters are pretty easy) and my grade as of right now is a 93.85%. I have found a tutor (who coincidentally is one of my old soccer coaches) who I mesh well with and will help me through this course. We were discussing what could have possibly have been the issue this year and he came up with many probable issues (the teacher, the class environment, the timing of the class(it was my last class of the day), etc. ) and I still can’t concretely say why. However, I am putting both the teacher and the grade behind me and just focusing on retaining and understanding the material this time around to prepare me for this final year. And I do have one question. My counselor told me that with the F on my transcript it will be virtually impossible to get into most schools as a pre-med/biology major and told me to instead apply to all of my schools as “undecided”. However, when I told this to my chem teacher, he completely advised against it. What should I do?