Well, many of the elite colleges don’t even accept AP credits or only accept them for placemen, and I don’t see people turning down Dartmouth because it won’t give credits… I’m fine with that as I think HS is for HS level courses, and college is for college level courses. IMO, Human Geography taken by 9th graders is not worthy of college credit.
So if the AP’s won’t help you, don’t apply for credit for them and that won’t make you a junior at Penn State, and paying higher tuition, until you really are a junior.