So I’m a US citizen living in Hong Kong, and the way things are done here, teachers either give low grades to force students to work harder, or they simply don’t care enough about the grades (“Oh, all that matters is that you get a high score in your IGCSE exam”), so they just give you a B which stands for “good” if you don’t stick out as particularly talented. By the time I figured this out, my GPA was effectively…uh…not going to be 4.0. At the moment I’m at a (self converted)GPA of 3.82 which is quite low. Will college admissions officers take into account possibly unfair grading systems when they convert my report cards to GPA (if they convert them at all?) Extra note on how I calculated my GPA, I went through all of my report cards, and used some scale from CIE(Cambridge International Examinations) to convert it. Also I take the IB, so will they just simply look at the IB score only out of laziness, and not convert all the report cards to GPA?
If it’s a college used to getting applicants from HK, then they’ll already know the context. Regarless, your school still submits a form which describes the marking system and what are the grade ranges of the topmost students.
What @T26E4 said is 100% correct. On a related note, unless a college specifically asked (and most do not) do not covert your GPA; report using your school’s scale.
3.82 is quite low?
For someone hoping to get into MIT, yes. .-…
Thanks for the answer T26E4 (Super Pershing fan?) 
Typically they’ll look a your IGCSE results (the 8-12 grades form part of our GPA, 30-50%) and IB predicted results. Your intermediate reports are of no interest since practices depend strictly on the school and our have international yardsticks so to speak.