<p>I have a feeling that the public colleges weigh the GPA more than the private ones..
is it true??</p>
<p>I don’t know if they weigh them more, but they tend to look much more closely at your hard statistics - GPA, test scores, class rank - than they do at your ECs. Public institutions process many thousands of applications so they tend to be much more formulaic in their approach. That doesn’t mean that your GPA is not as important at private schools, it just means that if your GPA isn’t quite as high as it should be, the admissions folks at a private school might be willing to look a little deeper.</p>