You are a Peaker. Therefore, you bought and *maybe* used a bunch of AP books for all of your super hard classes. Well guess what, you should keep those babies around. If you feel a great need to sell them, you can, but you will probably wish you hadn't because they are very useful study tools for actual college classes.
These books can provide sample problems to practice with, vocabulary lists, summarized readings, and other such goodies. Admittedly, some classes will very closely follow the content of the assigned textbook, but still, AP books can save you a lot of work.
Also, consider the fact that some college textbooks may not explain the little details of all of the concepts they cover because they are too hoity toity and advanced to bother with such trivialities. When this happens, you can use your AP books (or even the actual textbooks from that high school class) to fill in the gaps. My Spanish textbook this year is useless when it comes to explaining grammatical concepts. Yes, I know that I have already been taught these things once, and I know that in an ideal world I wouldn't need reminding, but I also know that it is shockingly easy to mix up the pluperfect subjunctive and the past perfect indicative. Imagine that.
Don't feel like you have to cart all of your high school textbooks and prep books to college with you, but if you know that you will be taking a Calc II class and it has been two years since you took AP Calc, then it might be helpful to have something from that class around to help you out. You can always use your extra books as brown-nosing fodder by showing up in your Proff's office with an old textbook and asking if the sample problems listed here on this page would be helpful for the upcoming test or if it would be better to look at these over here. I smell sympathy points!
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