How do colleges know your school's AP situation?

<p>But why would it matter? You don’t send them in until AFTER you are into college.</p>

<p>Like that is what I don’t get. There are so many threads about how AP scores are going to affect whether they get into college or not. AP scores are not required in the application process. They are meant to give students credit because they can’t look at actual grades because of grade inflation and other such things.</p>