<p>do universities care about actual percentages one gets in class, if it's an A? For instance, would a 4.0GPA senior year GPA with composed of all 90.1%'s be worse than one with all 97%'s?</p>
<p>Completely depends on your transcript. If your school reports percentages it might make a difference, but it doesn’t it won’t. Some universities may also consider +/-'s, but that also depends on how your school reports grades. Of course, the difference between and A and an A- or a 95 and a 91 in admissions is so small it’s not really something to worry about. A university may take someone with straight A+'s over straight A-'s, but everything else would have to be pretty much equal.</p>
<p>what if my school doesn’t make “+” or “-” distinctions for A’s and B’s? It’s just A, with nothing more attached.</p>
<p>Colleges see what your high school shows them. Nothing more and most don’t have the resources to hound high schools for anything more specific (often the same applies for EC’s so they just have to take your word for it that you participated in X club or Y sport).</p>
<p>So if your transcript shows</p>
<p>John Doe
Rank: XX/XXX
Biology — A
English — A
etc.</p>
<p>Then they have to take those A’s in stride but if you transcript shows A followed by XX% then they take that into account and likewise for if your transcript shows +/-. If there’s nothing more than a letter it won’t (or at least so they say) count against you. Though, compared to someone with A+'s that may not be particularly fair but oh well.</p>