It depends heavily on the particular course in college. Some college courses are really equivalent to an AP course. But if you think about it, AP students in high school are primarily honors students. so they belong in honors courses in college.
AP high school courses are often only the equivalent of non honors college courses. So it makes no sense to use AP credit to skip one non honors course, just to get into the next non honors course. You are putting yourself in with the non honors students and the non honors teachers that way.
If you can, I recommend finding a high level beginning honors course, whioch is really better than your AP course, and taking that ferom the beginning. Now to be sure, if you slip up and get in a mediocre course you will be very bored, so be sure to talk to the professor who will be tecahing it, and find out what she/he thinks.
AP courses have so taken over many schools, that they really are the best alternative in many high schools. Unfortunately some high schools have eliminated better non AP courses to make room for the very popular AP courses.
Here is a quote from a letter I wrote as unhappy parent to a high school years ago:
"AP courses are designed to prepare people to answer multiple choice questions on chosen topics, while the traditional courses, especially the honors seminars, are designed simply to teach people to read closely, analyze deeply, and to discuss and write effectively. These latter skills are much more useful in college and elsewhere, than is familiarity with a particular AP syllabus.
Second, students do not realize that the name AP is often a complete misnomer, and that AP courses are not at all equivalent to college courses. Consequently a student coming out of a traditional honors high school course is likely to take a beginning college course in the same subject (possibly an honors section) for which he is well prepared, while the AP student often tries to skip the introductory college course in his subject and enter an intermediate course, for which, in my experience, he is seldom even adequately prepared.
... Our difficulty is that students today have a shallow grasp of more and more advanced subjects, when we would prefer them to have a deeper grasp of basic subjects. ... Some people have told me that as long as college admissions forms ask how many AP courses the student has taken, there will be irresistible pressure to increase their number. There may be some miscommunication between admissions officials and professors, but the professors I know actually prefer to teach beginning calculus to people who are well versed in algebra and geometry, but who have not had calculus."
