Is my course load manageable?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi everyone. I’m going to be a sophmore next year, and course selection is coming up. I was wondering if this possible course schedule would be manageable.
1: English 2 Honors/ Advanced Public Speaking(each is one semester)
2: PE/Health (each is one semester)
3: Driver’s Ed/Principles of Aeronautical Science(each is a semester+ AeroSci is a really fun and laidback course)
4: Honors Pre-Calculus (Is this class hard, I heard Pre-Calc is boring)
5:AP European History( Talked with the teacher today and she scared me saying that every 2 weeks we need to give a presentation, write a 5 pg essay, read 4 chapters, and “take the hardest test in my life so far”)
6: AP Chemistry( I really love chemistry and have been exposed to hard concepts like stoich, reaction kinetics, periodic trends, and equilibrium since 7/8th grade)
7: Spanish 3 Advanced( I currently do the most work in Spanish 2A, but that is because my teacher is the worst I ever had)

Some background on myself: I’ve been a straight A student from 6th grade on, do 4-6 hours of extracurriculars(can be reduced), did rigourus summer programs at Northwestern that required an application, and I do anywhere from 1.5-3 hours of homework a night( but I take a lot of breaks, and this is by no means the fastest I could do my homework).

Any advice would be much apprecuated, thanks!

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its doable. From what I know and what you have said, AP Chem and AP Euro will be the time-consuming, difficult classes. Honors pre-calc is not hard. Overall, you are going to take 2 easy classes, 3 medium classes, and 2 hard classes. You may have 4-6 hours of homework per night.

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AP Chem is very hard - have you talked with the Chemistry teacher? Have you taken Chem Honors?
AP Euro is hard and a lot of work, too. Those would be very hard classes to take together, for a Sophomore. You’d have two very easy classes to balance it but still, check with your guidance counselor what would happen if you decide to “drop down a level” in one of these two hard classes. As long as something’s in place at your high school, you should go ahead and see how you handle it.
Note that you shouldn’t sacrifice sleep for your schedule - if you find yourself sleeping less than 8 hours a night (regularly, not “exceptionally”), rethink your schedule.