<p>I have heard A TON of different answers to this question and I want to hear your answer and where you found it out. When applying to colleges, do they make your GPA unweighted and compared because some schools do grades a little differently?</p>
<p>I have heard colleges have a special computer system that they type in your GPA to make everyone's on the same scale.</p>
<p>You can get your own proof by either checking on the websites of the schools you’re interested in or emailing the admissions office and asking. I recently emailed two schools on my daughter’s behalf and received detailed responses from each. The answers were completely different.</p>
<p>The real answer is that different colleges treat grades differently. Some look at weighted, some look at unweighted, and some look at both. Still others (such as the UCs) recalculate your GPA themselves according to their own method.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you</p>
<p>Each university has its own system. Some universities, like the UCs, look at weighed GPA. Other universities will look at unweighed GPA. Some schools, like Michigan, recalculate GPA. Zoosermom is right, you should go to the websites of the universities you are applying to and check how they approach GPA.</p>
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