How important is taking AP Chemistry to doing well in college chemistry classes...?

It's completely irrelevant. You'd think it matters but it really doesn't. Nobody cares that you took AP anything in college and you'll find a lot of people taking courses they'd place out of in order to boost their GPA.

I'm a tutor for general chemistry at a University and I have tutored an AP student. Taking AP chemistry puts you well ahead of most college chemistry students. By the time you're done with AP chemistry, you should be able to pass out of the first two general chemistry courses at any University you attend with very little effort.

If you take an AP course, you can take a test that lets you automatically pass out of college chemistry. AP courses are designed to help you pass those test. If you did well in your AP course then you should have no problem in college.

Also, keep in mind to learn the most in your high school college AP courses because 99.9% of college professors can not teach and they do not care if you learn the material to pass. To put this into perspective, 50% of all college freshmen drop out their first year and 30% of students graduate in six years.

dude, at my school I get like d's in normal chemistry. At the community college, i take standard classes and recieve B's. Either, my school is incredibly hard.(most likely) or there is no corolation whatsoever.

honestly, I coasted through my first year of college chem on stuff that I learned in regular high school chem...Now I have a career as a chemist and I barely use any of the stuff I learned in college except for the first couple classes of basic stuff

it'll help alot if you want to go it to that field