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<li><p>I go to a catholic school that has a pretty difficult grading scale. Will colleges look at that and see that my GPA would be higher if switched to the regular 4.0 scale?</p></li>
<li><p>This may be a dumb question, but do colleges look applicants up on facebook and view their page when they are making the choice of accepting them or not?</p></li>
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<p>What is your GPA and what is the school’s GPA scaling system and the school’s general grading system? Need to know this to give a more suitable answer. Regardless of the scaling system used, if you’re top of your class, colleges will know. It should not be a serious matter.</p>
<p>Some colleges might, especially for the elite schools. I’m not sure if they really waste their time nowadays with that anymore, but I know in the past I have heard on the news a couple of times about students getting rejected after some elite university searched them up on Facebook. Just make your Facebook private to non-friends and you should be fine.</p>
<p>They will understand your likely lower grades in the context of your school’s rigor, but I don’t think they technically, numerically recalculate it.</p>
<p>And they can look at your Facebook, but they don’t have time to go through everyone’s, obviously. Make your profile private, untag pictures where you’re clearly wasted/toasted/brandishing a bottle of Bacardi, and just don’t be stupid, and you’ll be fine.</p>