Thanks all MUCH again for your advices! Kid refuses to drop any class at this point, stating that all the applications were in, now withdrawing you’ll have to notify all the schools and that will raise the red flag. If drop then drop in 1st quarter already, not half-way thru the school year and only about 3-4 months away from the AP exams. Oh well. We will check out some more safeties. Thanks @MYOS1634 much for the school list. We’ll know the results in less than 2 months. I just hope everything will work out fine so I can sleep 
Thanks everyone again.
It won’t raise a red flag if she takes a WP in one of her classes as kids drop one class all the time with this kind of schedule - and colleges won’t know she waited till the end of the first semester.
In addition, if she stays in only one of the two problematic classes, she may actually learn the content more thoroughly.
Is she okay going to Rutgers (New Brunswick right?) or Penn state (UP?) , and can you afford either one? Because at this point it’s likely where she’ll be going. The other universities were long shots already and aren’t likely to forgive two C’s. Keep in mind that the recommendation is not to take AP classes where you’re not pretty sure you can get a B or higher. I suppose she thinks the schedule will make her 'look impressive ’ to adcoms, but it won’t due to the C’s and due to the fact it looks like an overload. She may even be considered an AP - addict, the kid who take lots of AP classes just because they’re AP.
I’m also concerned for two reasons: is she getting enough sleep? Such a schedule is insanely difficult, as in near impossible - is she getting 8 hours of sleep a night? If she sleeps 6 hours or less due to that schedule, she’s actively harming her body and brain. Please check.
Another concern is that for premed, slow and steady wins the race. The ability to have a manageable schedule spread over four years is key. This may mean pushing general biology to the spring and only taking chemistry in the fall, for instance, completing the first biology sequence over the summer at a local 4-year college. Often, taking bio +lab, chemistry + lab, weeder calculus all together the first semester sinks the student 's chances no matter their preparation, as they also need to adjust to college and college demands in terms of autonomy and social life. Being able to balance a schedule is a key factor in making it to med school and your child needs to learn that skill before college if she wants a shot at the field she chose.
Thanks @MYOS1634. I just kept thinking about this. Reading on this subject all over CC to make sure we have a good decision, but just getting different opinions. She applied RD in January, some even in mid-January, so it’s only 2 weeks before semester ends. I’m tempted to contact the schools to find out but not tell them about the grades. Just something like 6 AP classes demand a lot of time commitments and she wants to drop one to have more time to focus on the rest. And since AP Bio takes most of time, she would like to drop it. Plus she is starting internship at a medical lab at NIH on the weekends, so she wants to have time to pursue her internship as well. Or should I leave the internship out ? I just don’t want to word it wrong then mess thing up for her. Now I’m looking all over CC and even google for a good sample email about withdrawing class after 1st semester senior year but still sounds mature and not raise red flags to colleges. Sigh 
and yes, she has 8 hours of sleep. They have blocked schedule, meaning 3 classes one day, and 4 classes on the other day. She got A on the elective class easily though and rarely needs to study for it. Calc BC also seems easy for her, almost got A-, but ended up with B+. It’s the 2 science classes with lab that took up most of her time, but they’re on different days.
^okay, that’s great. I was honestly concerned, because there are many kids who overschedule and then go by 6 hours of sleep, or sometimes even less, and really harm themselves in the process. So, that’s a relief at least.
Remember, they won’t see the grades on the AP exams (will they?) so focus on just trying to make a B in the classes. She will be OK and a C is not going to be a deal breaker!
@sunnyschool it’s 2 Cs
If she gets A/B for those 2 classes in 3rd quarter, I wonder if she can send them in? 3rd quarter ends in beginning of April. Maybe that’s too late then.
What are her ACT/SAT scores?
It’ll be too late. Decisions are made in February-March.
@suzyQ7 very good SAT/ACT scores, in the 99% percentile for both. I don’t think it will matter though.
^Yes it will, but for universities where the acceptance rate is 40% and where those scores are top 25% - not at reaches, where they’ll keep her in consideration but won’t make her acceptance.
“Colleges say they want kids to take the most challenge schedule they can…but in the end, if they just do okay (sub A grades), they penalize them for that. It’s BS.”
I don’t think we should look at it as penalizing them. What they are saying is that many of the students they will be compared to will be receiving A’s in these rigorous courses. Regardless of whether a student takes the easier course and receives an A or the more rigorous course and receives a B that will still be the part of the comparison. Obviously that B is not the only thing considered as your child was accepted by the school that you asked that of. For most universities it really isn’t an issue. Only at top tier universities or in certain selective majors will they be competing primarily with students who have the best grades in the hardest courses. There will be students with the best grades in the most rigorous courses that won’t be offered admission either.
It’s BS though…because some high schools grade SO much easier than others.
Typically, a B in an AP course is okay. But students are advised not to take classes where odds are high they’ll get C’s (if only because they’re really not learning that much and probably are working very hard to the detriment of other classes. It doesn’t seem to be the situation here).