How does my course load look for a competitive college?

Applying to College
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Hello! I am a Junior this year and wanted to get an opinion on how my courses through high school might look for a competitive college. Here are my classes and grades in them:
9th Grade:
Biology H - grade: A
Geometry H -grade: A
English 1 H- grade: A
World History H- grade : A
PE/Personal Fitness (Required)- grade : A
Music Techniques I (required arts credit)- grade : A
Spanish 1- grade : A

10th Grade:
Chemistry H- grade : A
Algebra 2- grade : A
AP English Language and Composition- grade : A (AP Score: 5)
AP European History- grade : A (AP Score: 5)
AP Environmental Science- grade : A (AP Score: 5)
Spanish 2- grade : A
Music Techniques 2- grade : A

Transferred schools junior year to pursue Japanese which I have been studying for 4 years and Biomedical science. New school uses A+ grading scale, I expect to make within the range of A- to A+ in all classes

11th Grade:
AP Chemistry
Pre-calc H
Science Fiction English H/Medieval English H (was told by the AP lit teacher I should take
AP lit senior year since it was very senior-centric)
AP US History
Medical Interventions 3 Advanced (Counts as an AP for GPA, this is the school’s advanced
Biomedical track… will they see this as an AP/equivalent? It is a difficult class)
Spanish 3 H
Japanese 3 H

12th Grade:
AP Biology
Calculus H
AP English Literature
AP Government/Economics H
Biomedical 4 Advanced
AP Physics
AP Japanese Language and Culture

Is my junior year too light? It was difficult to make it a heavier schedule considering competitive colleges requires 3+ years in the same language, I am passionate about learning Japanese, and not advanced enough in Spanish or Math to take AP. Will my junior year look bad? I am shooting for top 10 and top 20 schools.

Thank you.

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3 AP’s and 3 Honors? I think you are fine.

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For math, why wouldn’t you be able to take AP calculus in 12th grade after completing precalculus honors in 11th grade? That would be the standard progression; a non-AP calculus course that is less rigorous than AP calculus AB would be for those who struggled in precalculus (such a course may be modeled on a college calculus for business majors course).

For Spanish, if the AP course is level 4 in your school, why wouldn’t you be able to take it in 12th grade after completing Spanish 3 honors in 11th grade? Or are you just less interested in Spanish and prefer to take Japanese and other courses?

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Thank you for telling me about AP calculus! I didn’t know that I could make that progression.
I am less interested in Spanish and hope to continue studying Japanese in college, so that is why I decided to take Japanese instead. Do you think that looks fine? I plan to take the Japanese subject test, both biology subject tests (hopefully), and chemistry subject test.

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Unless you are applying for Georgetown, you only need 2 Subject Tests, and taking both bios is duplicative since only 1 will be counted.

Yes.