The first 2 tests kicked the entire AP Chemistry classes ass. They all failed. My daughter has rallied back with getting 90% on the subsequent tests. All homework has gotten 100%. But she still has a C. She had applied EA to all 10 colleges she was interested in. I’m terrified that if she gets acceptances, they will get pulled if she finishes the 1st semester with a C.
College admission offers are typically conditional on sufficiently good senior year course grades / GPA as shown on the final high school transcript.
“Sufficiently good” may be either explicitly defined (e.g. “no D or F grades, senior year GPA >= ___”) or vaguely defined (e.g. “we expect you to maintain your academic performance”).
Obviously, if it is explicitly defined, you know what the threshold is. If it is vaguely defined, you may be less sure, although the conventional wisdom is that one C grade or a slight GPA drop is very unlikely to cause rescission of admission. A large GPA drop (perhaps due to multiple C grades for a student with all A grades previously) or (especially) any D or F grades would be much more risky.
If you go look in threads from April / May / June / July, you will find plenty of “will my college admission be rescinded?” threads from worried high school seniors.
All three of my children took AP Chem.
What I found interesting is that when they arrived at their colleges, for their science-based majors, they all had to “retake” general chemistry. The professor, of my eldest, called it the “equalizer” course. He was able to see their levels of comprehension amongst the various students. Those who had taken AP Chem had an “easier” time of acclimating to the large amount of material that was presented in the college course and labs.
Since your daughter enrolled in AP Chem and is performing well, I would suspect that her colleges would view her performance in conjunction with the other coursework taken at the same time and will be forgiving, given her overall performances.