Did I make right decision about schedule?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>The toughest schedule I could've gotten and changed into:
1 - AP Calculus
2 - Drawing & Painting/Auto/Ceramics/Culinary Arts/Home Econ etc. (all vocational arts, so this basically is an easy period for most seniors)
3 - AP English Lit
4 - AP Gov & Econ (H)
5 - French (4th Year)
6 - AP Bio</p>

<p>My sched this year:
0 (before school starts) - Student Government
1 - AP Calculus
2 - Drawing & Painting (college prep)
3 - AP English Lit
4 - AP Government (1 semester), Honors Economics (2nd semester, no AP Econ @ our school)
5 - Photo (college prep)
6 - Dance (college prep) (third year course)</p>

<p>The reason I didn't take the toughest load is NOT because I want an easy year. It's because of the following:</p>

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<li>I am going to be on our school's annual dance production and being in Dance will really hone my technique. I pick dance because of it.</li>
<li>Wanted to take photo because I was the only one that stepped up to be editor-in-chief for yearbook (and I don't even have yearbook making background). The only period I could work on yearbook is 5th period (where the same advisor teaches photo). So I'm actually doing double work for photo and yearbook. Couldn't take the REAL yearbook class since AP Gov is in the same period. Sucks.</li>
<li>As for the drawing & painting, I was actually expecting at least a Physiology class at that period. But since there's no Physiology in that period, I took the usual vocational class available for me instead of having a free period.</li>
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<p>I just need some opinions from you guys. How would college admission officers view my schedule this year (I know what admission officers might think is random.)? I just need to hear what you guys think of it. Or did I made a bad decision about picking activity oriented classes instead of a rigorous academic schedule?</p>

<p>Be honest. Thank you!</p>

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<p>In the unlikely event that college admissions officers show up at your door and chew you out as a lazy, good-for-nothing, lawless, corrupt slacker, tell them to go stick their extremist agendas somewhere that the sun doesn't shine.</p>

<p>The fact is, at any college where the admissions officers would hold against you having any non-AP classes, the admissions rate is low. Their decisions will be affected by everything from their mood of the moment, the phases of the moon, and the temperature in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.</p>

<p>10 years from now, nobody will care whether you attended the college rated by US News as #1, #10, or #100.</p>

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<p>It's still completely possible to get into a great school without taking ALL of the hardest classes. Your ECs are what make you interesting.</p>

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<p>If you want to do Dance and it has been a staple of EC life then continue it by all means. And if you never had a very rigorous schedule, it would not exactly matter, either; only certain high-ranking schools care.</p>