<p>If you take AP exams, do colleges look at your score to determine if you're eligible for college credit, or are the scores just for comparison with other students?</p>
<p>AP scores are supposed to be for college credit only, but if you take them before senior year colleges like to see the scores so that they can confirm mastery.</p>
<p>Top schools will definitely hold it against you if you haven't managed to pass any exams.</p>
<p>That said, APs are self-reported so you don't even have to tell them.</p>