when you transfer to another college does your gpa follow you or do you get to start over with a new GPA?

Answer 1

Most schools do not transfer grades. After you're accepted, the old GPA falls off at the new school and your transferred credits are simply listed as course and credit but no grade.

However; when calculating academic honors or scholarships, schools use the cumulative collegiate GPA. The cumulative collegiate GPA includes the grade of every course you've taken at every college you've attended.

When applying to graduate school, the admissions committee will ask for official transcripts from each college attended; even if you have all of those courses transcripted (credit banked) onto a single transcript somewhere. They will see your cumulative collegiate GPA as well.

That all said, I've seen some students who have a low GPA (too low to graduate) transfer schools before the start of the senior year (last 30 hours) and achieve the objective of raising the institutional GPA high enough to graduate.

Answer 2

you're required to place up all previous transcripts, so definite your undesirable grades will follow you. I merely transferred and my new college calculated a commencing GPA in accordance with my previous transcripts, even the single from 2001! some faculties merely pass the credit yet do not start up you off with a GPA.

Answer 3

I believe the GPA transfers...

Unless you transfer from some small community college in the middle of Alberta Canada to Princeton

Answer 4

I believe it follows.

But it's best that you ask someone from either of the colleges, each college have different rules and requirements.