[artsifartsi]

How do colleges figure out your unweighted GPA? I've always been told by my high school that a 90 and a 100 is looked at the same (they're all 4.0s) same with Bs, Cs, etc.
But I looked at the chart on collegeboard.com and they had 3.7 as A-, 3.3 as B+, etc. I'm just wondering how colleges actually configure it? Do some high schools just send the letter grade, not the number?

[chinese tears <3]

They get official transcripts sent from your school which you order when you decide your university. During the application process, you also self-report your grades. Collegeboard also has a record, but I think it's just a range of where you fall.

What collegeboard uses isn't the actual thing. The universities do only look at your solid grade without the pluses and minuses, even if your school transcript has them [which they usually do]. Some schools post up their calculation process and usually people can calculate their own GPA. The pluses and minuses only come into play in college like an A- in a class means you got a 3.9 or something and now you can't become valedictorian or whatever, I don't really get how it goes yet but my friend tried to explain it to me.

[josebiwasabi]

this is a tough question because a lot of colleges have their own GPA weighting systems.