<p>Do you have AP physics B or C credit?</p>
<p>Advanced physics courses typically list physics for physics majors as prerequisites, not physics for biology majors. Only AP physics C could possibly apply to physics for physics majors, although not all schools accept it for that.</p>
<p>However, the recommendation to retake AP credit may be due to the fact that many or most biology majors are (at least initially) pre-meds, and medical schools often do not accept AP credit for pre-med courses. If your major does accept your AP credit against its physics requirement, and you are not pre-med, then you may want to consider this method of deciding:</p>
<p>a. Check the catalog for any courses you may want to take later that list physics as a prerequisite.
b. If there are such courses, try the old final exams of the physics courses you may skip to see how well you know their content from the college’s point of view.</p>
<p>For math courses that you may be able to skip with AP credit, it is also a good idea to try the college’s old final exams.</p>