I have already been accepted to my college of choice. It is now May and I am getting ready for my AP exams. I was wondering, does the college care what scores I get on my AP’s. The reason I ask is that I am taking two AP exams, one in AP Physics 2 and the other in AP Computer Science. I am planning to go into mechanical engineering in college and neither of these exams really apply at all to what I want to major in. I hate computer science with a passion and hope to never do anything involved with coding ever again unless it is required for my major. I enjoy doing physics but from what everyone has told me, getting a credit on the AP Physics 2 exam is not going to get me out of any classes because in mechanical engineering you are required to take calculus-based physics (aka AP Physics C) and that algebra-based physics is useless for anything other than giving me the background and the basis for what I am going to be doing in calc-based. So to reiterate the question, will my college care at all if I score poorly on one of my AP exams.
If it is Clemson…probably not. Too big to care what everyone is getting on their AP exams 
No, they wont care about your AP score as long as your grade in the class is fine. You just wont be able to take a credit or get out of class but it doesn’t seem like you can anyway.
Exactly. They don’t care at all what your AP score is. In fact, if the score won’t get you credit or advanced placement, you don’t even need to have the score sent to them.
But do check their website to verify which scores can be used for credit and/or advanced placement. You should be able to find this information easily by searching for AP credit with the website search bar.
If an exam isn’t accepted for credit or advanced placement, then your score doesn’t matter at all.
If an exam is accepted for credit for a class that would fulfill a degree requirement (even as just an extra elective), and you don’t want to bother taking that class once in college then try to hit the score needed for that. This could free up time in your schedule some semester when you would otherwise be overwhelmed. This could well be the case for both of your AP exams.
If a certain score on an exam would be accepted for credit for a class that is a pre-req for other classes you need to take for your major, then you need to think a bit harder. If you want to be certain to be able to take that class on campus (often the best idea in math or science), then you don’t want to aim for a score that would force you to take that credit and skip that pre-req. But again, if you don’t send the AP scores to your university, no one there would ever know that you earned a 5 that would have allowed you to skip a class had you wanted to skip it.