Deciding on senior classes

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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So currently I am a junior in high school. For background, my current schedule is 5 AP courses and college French, and I have little trouble in any of my courses but physics. Regarding next year though, I’m having a tough time deciding on what my schedule should exactly be. My current idea is:

AP Literature
AP Econ
AP Physics C
AP Stats or AP Calc BC (taking AB right now)
Graphic design (need it as a art credit, and tech credit for my school’s STEM program)
Undecided (either AP French (called AP but 2nd year college French), AP Comp Sci, or other AP Science)

My first question is whether I should take Calc BC or Stats. I’m aiming to in some sort of engineering or technological field, so I’ve heard BC is better even if half the year is review. What would look better as a engineering focused student?

My second question is how necessary is it to take multiple different AP sciences. With my current schedule, the only AP science I would have taken would be physics based ones. Are AP Chem or AP Bio necessary? I don’t really see how AP Bio would be beneficial considering my focus. The AP Chemistry teacher at my school is also notorious for her abysmal pass rate, so taking AP Chem in itself might be a mistake.

Last question is I’ve heard certain schools don’t take graphic design as an art credit. How true is this basis?

Thanks

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Definitely take calc BC. Stats is useless.
Is grapic design AP class? If its not why would colleges even take it as credit?

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Not AP credit, just as a normal art credit. I’ve heard it doesn’t count to some colleges.

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@maxim2001 think he means a credit as in “If the college requires an art credit for applicants, would graphic design count?” not “will they let me get out of a college class with this credit?”

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Bump, still deciding

@snowfairy137 And yeah that’s exactly what I mean

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To comment on how you said that AP Bio wouldn’t be useful since you want to possibly do engineering, their are some types of engineering which knowledge in biology is needed.