If I have make all As in my classes throughout high school, and have a 4.29 gpa, would my unweighted be 4.0 or does high the As are factor into the calculation?
If you have all A (or A+) but no A- or any lower grade, it would be 4.0 uwGPA. If you have A-, then it is likely not 4.0 for most schools. Some schools skipped freshmen and/or non-core subject grades in recalculation though.
Man I wish I would have known about this sooner. If I am not mistaken an A- is 90-92, and I have had two of those. I could have very easily kept those higher if I had actually studied 
But it’s too wait now, so I won’t dwell on it
At my school, a 4.0 is 90 and above in every class. So all As regardless of how low the A is.
The 93 vs. 90 cutoff for an A will vary from school to school.
Okay, thanks for the information. Is there any way to know what schools use the 90 cutoff and which use the 93?
You need to stop worrying. There isn’t a college in the country that would keep you because you don’t have a 4.0, even Harvard. The question from top schools once you clear a minimum GPA bar ( around 3.8 uw) is “What else have you got?”.
High schools calculate GPAs differently…you need to look in your student handbook or ask your GC/guidance office how it is calculated at your school. Colleges get this information with your transcript, so while your ‘local’ GPA might be important to your class rank, colleges will look at your actual course grades since they know there are many ways to calculate GPA.
At our school, (unweighted) only an A+ (97-100) is a 4.0. (A, 93-96=3.67; A-, 90-92=3.33). Obviously very different from JoseAMendez’s school, above.
A- is considered 3.7 in GPA calculation (except some schools that do not count subgrades like UMich). So you can calculate your uwGPA from your letter grades of each class.