<p>You can always petition to have requirements waived or substituted, but I would consider it unlikely that they would approve an AP for GE credit that wasn’t already approved (and that USC has no equivalent class for, at least that I’m aware of) In general they’re hesitant to make ANY substitutions for GE’s, even other USC classes.</p>
<p>AP Physics gets you elective unit credits (which help get earlier registration times, until you hit the 32 unit cap) and it also lets you ask to get into PHYS 161/162/163, which is the alternative honors physics sequence, instead of PHYS 151/152/153 which is the ordinary calculus-based physics sequence.</p>
<p>Regardless, though, you still have to take their physics. As someone who did both AP Physics C exams and got 5’s o both, USC’s physics goes further than the AP.</p>
<p>(If given the opportunity, and you’re interested in physics, I highly suggest you take the 16x sequence! It is taught by one of the best professor on campus and goes FAR beyond anything AP physics might offer)</p>