Many colleges do offer credit for AP Physics 1 or 2, but Physics and Engineering majors only accept AP Physics C or college Physics with Calculus. For example Penn and Brown accept AP Physics 1 and 2 credit with scores of 5: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/brown-university (Click “Applying/AP”) If you take and get a high score on both Physics 1 and Physics C Mechanics exams, then you will only get credit for one of them.