<p>Many of the colleges that my kids applied to said they would recalculate their GPAs based on their own criteria. They asked for a description of each class taken and the grade achieved from the high school. Basically they wanted a course catalog and a transcript. So, from that point of view it doesn’t matter which one is given.</p>
<p>Back many moons ago when I was applying to colleges, I was told by one admissions counselor that they got a GPA from your high school and then put into context with other student’s GPAs from your school that had attended their college and how they performed. In other words, some high schools are tougher than others. Don’t know if colleges still do this, but I would suspect so.</p>