The negative effect of withdrawn course.

I am an international student at Virginia Tech. My major is EE and this year is my sophomore year. I wanna try transferring to my dream school. However, I withdrew my micro economy course in my first semester since it was not required course and I wanna better GPA. My overall GPA now is 3.3. Does the withdrawn course have a great negative effect? Thank you!!!

When did you withdraw? If you withdrew past any deadlines your college has, it could be a negative for admissions.

Thank you for replying. I didn’t pass any deadlines. I mean there is a w in my transcript. I heard from my friends that it is negative for admission.