Will these univerisities look at my unweighted or weighted gpa?

Question

i want to go to NYU, USC, or UCLA at LA for college but i wanted to know if they will only look at my unweighted gpa? my unweighted gpa is a 3.75 and weighted is 3.89 (i take honors classes) ..

Answer 1

Unweighted.  They like to see that you took advanced courses, and may apply their own weighting criteria, but every school weights grades differently so it's not fair to directly compare them (some weight only AP, some weight honors, some don't weight, some weight 0.5, 1.0, 0.25, etc).

Answer 2

The UCs, including UCLA, have their own system for figuring out GPA, which is somewhat like weighted GPA, but not quite.  The others will look at unweighted, but will consider the rigor of your academic program.