So my school operates on a 100 point scale. However, in my freshman year I earned two 92s (A-s right?). So would colleges see my gpa as it is out of 100, or recalculate it with two A-s, which would bring it down to like a 3.97. Is a 3.97 still viable for top schools?
Colleges will see you GPA as it is reported on your transcript; very few schools are going to recalculate it.
:-< Yes.
Do you know of any schools specifically that recalculate gap besides like UCs?
A 3.97? You’re going down the wrong path mate, a 3.97 will get you nowhere. You absolutely need a 4.0.
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Yes, a 3.97 is viable. Duh. 
But according to skieurope, colleges wouldn’t even view it as a 3.97 right?
What?
He said very few would recalculate it. Every college will see it as it is reported on the transcript.
Sorry, I meant that they wouldn’t see it as a 3.97, right? They would view it as out of 100, which would appear way over a 4.0
They will view it as it is.
So if you reported it as a 92/100, they will view it as that. They won’t recalculate it, and they won’t adjust it to a 4.0 scale.
will the ivies convert my gpa out of 100 to a 4.0?
No
@skieurope, would the two 92s and a 95 stand out to admission officers?
No
@skieruope, even if i go to a average public school?
Yes. There is much much more to the college application than just a transcript.
Even people with 3.0s get into Harvard… admission is much, much more than just GPA. They can’t stress it enough, but people on here are blinded about needing a high gpa, high test scores, X ec’s, X APs, X clubs, etc.
The NACAC does a survey each year, where they ask college admissions departments at over 1000 colleges a variety of questions about college admissions, including GPA recalculation. A summary from one of the surveys is at http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/articles/Pages/Factors-in-the-Admission-Decision.aspx and quoted below:
Given that the majority of colleges in the survey recalculate GPA, it would be quite a long list of schools.
I asked our GC about this. Our school only reports grades on a weighted 100 point scale. The scale is part of the school profile:
A 90‐100+
B 80‐89
C 75‐79
D 70‐74
F 0‐69
since we do not use +/- the students were told to convert to a 4.0 scale using 90-100 = 4.00, 89-80= 3.00 etc…
The schools will see the transcripts with the actual number grade and they may calculate it differently.
I told my kids to never to make a grade below 95 so this would be an issue but they didn’t listen to me;-)
@data10 would the selective colleges (top 30ish) “standardize gpa”?
Some would, some wouldn’t. The top 30 schools are not monolithic.