Do colleges look at the letter grade or GPA?

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<p>Title says it all. A lot of times, some high schools will give extra weight to classes such as "honors" courses and others wont. Thus, their GPAs are higher. MY question is, do colleges just look at the GPA or look at the letter grades received in the classes?</p>

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<p>I really hope they look at the NUMBER grade instead. Otherwise all my damn 89s will turn into 3.0s T_T</p>

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<p>They look at the grades in conjunction with the level of course difficulty.</p>

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<p>They look at the individual grades. and if they look at GPAs they only look at unweighted 4.0 scale(often times they recalculate it). As a UNC admissions officer explained it to me “There are 4.0, 4.333, 5.0, 6.0, 12.0 scales(and many in between). Not to mention some are weighted and some aren’t”. Your GPA only matters as a number itself in determining your rank or percent within your own high school. If they were comparing you to someone from the same high school or a high school extremely similar rigor wise and with the same scaling system, then they might use the GPAs to compare, but in general they just look at individual grades in all of the classes.</p>

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<p>@stetwa4- Thanks. That is great info!</p>