Transferring for the Second Time Among Top Schools

From your post you never actually enrolled in any classes at the 2nd school, right? you never went there, you never had any experience of it-you were accepted as a transfer student and took a leave of absence before enrolling, yes? If so you didn’t actually ever ‘go’ there. Yes, if/when you apply to a new school you put that you are on a LOA from school #2 (and you withdraw from school #2!).

Unless…the situation is murkier than you are saying here…