How do colleges look at grading scales?

Applying to College
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<p>Okay, so there's this high school with this grading scale:
94-100 = A
87-93 = B
80-86 = C
73-79 = D
72 or less = F</p>

<p>Let's say a student here has a GPA of 85. How would a college translate that to a 4.0 scale? Would they look at the 85 or the C? I'm just wondering because I saw something on Collegeboard to translate high school GPA to 4.0 scale. If I use the number 85, it was something like a 3.0 average, but the letter grade C was something like a 2.0 average.</p>

<p>Basically I just want to know if colleges look at the number or letter grade.</p>

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<p>Convert each course into letter grade and then calculate GPA using A=4.0, B=3.0, etc. You don’t use the average number to convert to one letter grade.</p>