I think I understand what the OP was getting at. The school will use whatever stats the high school sends. If the school doesn’t weight courses or give extra points for honors or AP, that’s what the college will use for the scholarships. If Student A has a 4.97, she might get a better scholarship than Student B from a school that only has a 4.0 scale. The college will even calculate the gpa from a school that doesn’t calculate a gpa, but if the student is at a school that does, the college won’t recalculate.
My daughter ran into this with a scholarship. The scholarship considers gpa, scores, class rank, but if there is no class rank that is just thrown out. Well, if you go to a very competitive school, your class rank could be 20% even though your gpa is 4.5 and your scores are practically perfect. If you go to a so-so school, then you might be tops in your class even though you’d be much lower ranked at the more competitive school. If you go to a school that doesn’t rank, then you might be anywhere in the mix and it doesn’t count against you (it never really helps you as the gpa does that).
But in the end it is their scholarship money and they get to award it how they want.