The grade that my academic counselor at my school uses/shows me is always my weighted grade. I had heard from someone that colleges will see your individual grades for each class along with the weighted grade from each honors/AP class. Which will they see, unweighted or weighted?
Depends on your HS and how they do transcripts. Some schools put both, some only include one, so I would just ask your counselor.
I believe that colleges recalculate all your grades and it really does not matter what weighted grades your high school gives you. At least that is what my D and myself were told at many info sessions we have attended. For example, the UC schools told us that they add an entire grade onto honors & AP classes.
colleges use your actual grades, not the weighting your HS has chosen. Some colleges request you send a transcript, others such as UC use self-reported grades (but they verify with an actual transcript after you graduate HS). Colleges then calculate your GPA using whatever classes they choose, with whatever weights they choose.
Interestingly, there seem to be a few schools which accept GPAs as weighted by high schools. University of Alabama, for the purpose of its well known GPA and ACT/SAT based scholarships is an example. http://scholarships.ua.edu/faq/ says:
This could give high schools incentive to adopt very exaggerated GPA weighting (e.g. +2 or even +3 for honors/AP courses; some students have reported 6.something weighted GPAs).