<p>I am transferring from a very good state school to an excellent private school. At my state school they offered something called a GPNC option, which basically means that if I got lower than a B (you select which grade), the grade didn't effect my gpa. I got a D. </p>
<p>Because I am transferring to a different university, will grad schools be able to look at it and will I have to factor it into my pre-req gpa? </p>
<p>When you apply to grad school, you will have to send official copies of all of your transcripts. What they think of your current school’s grading system will be up to them.</p>
<p>That sounds like an incredibly bizarre way of calculating a GPA. Do you not get credit for the course if you get below a B? You’ll still have to provide a record of every college course you’ve taken. Your current school may not count those courses toward your GPA, but other schools are going to calculate them however they see fit. </p>
<p>Your gpa resets when you transfer to any 4-year university </p>
<p>I think that’s a bit of an oversimplification. You will have multiple GPAs. You’ll have your GPA from your first school, and you’ll have your GPA from your transfer school. You will also have a cumulative GPA from both schools. </p>
<p>If you start at a community college you have the GPA there. Then if you transfer to a university you’ll have a new GPA specific to that school. If you then transfer again though, the new school is not going to look solely at the GPA from your transfer school. They’re going to look at the GPA from your community college and the GPA from your transfer school. When applying for grad school, they’re going to look at each GPA individually, and also an overall cumulative GPA. It’s not as simple as just saying that it “resets.” </p>
<p>After you transfer, your GPA will be based only on grades earned in courses taken at the new school for most of that school’s purposes (there may be a few exceptions, such as UCs including grades from other UCs in college GPA calculations).</p>
<p>However, if you apply to another school (e.g. graduate or professional school, or transfer again), then all previously taken college course work and grades earned will be considered.</p>
What school are you transferring to?
I can say that for medical school, you report grades for all college courses you took anywhere. That includes dual enrollment or other things during high school. As @comfortablycurt says though, in addition to a total cumulative GPA, the GPA for each institution would be calculated separately.