Is my high school schedule too rigorous?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So, I'm wondering if my planned high school schedule is rigorous enough (I'm a rising sophomore; I probably won't be able to change any classes). Also, is it doable? Should I move any junior/senior year courses around?</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Honors English 9 B+/B+
Honors Algebra II/Trig B+/A (I skipped a grade in math, but this is common--90 kids in a class of 530--where I live)
Honors Biology A-/A
Geography/Health A/A (required class; if you skip, you have to take it later in high school)
Spanish II A-/A-
PE A-/A- (required class)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors English 10
Honors Chemistry
Honors Precalculus (UC weighted)
Spanish III (dual enrollment)
World History (no honors/AP offered)
Intro to Design (engineering)
Colorguard (optional seventh period first semester; only seventh period class offered other than Marching Band and Musical Theater; it sort of counts as a sport if you do it second semester; PE credit)</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Honors English 11 (UC weighted; junior year req.)
US History (not taking AP course; junior year req.)
Journalism (school newspaper; very selective) OR AP Statistics (I may take Statistics at the community college)
AP Calculus B/C
AP Physics 1
AP Computer Science
Colorguard</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP English Literature (senior year req.)
AP Government/AP Macroeconomics (senior year req.)
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
Journalism (school newspaper; very selective) OR AP World History
Multivariable Calculus/Linear Algebra (dual enrollment)
Colorguard (maybe; if my parents let me, since it'll just count as elective credit once I've fulfilled my PE requirements and it's very, very time consuming)</p>

<p>Other than Journalism (which should be okay since it's an application + interview class?) and the fact that I'm not taking APUSH, this is considered pretty rigorous for my school; but a lot of people from my school take even more rigorous schedules (AP Stats instead of PE sophomore year, APUSH, basically just APs). The only APs we're allowed to take sophomore year are AP Chinese (for native speakers) and AP Stats (for people taking Precalculus; I was eligible, but chose engineering). Yay for highly competitive publics.</p>

<p>I'm not taking APUSH because it has a really, really, really bad reputation at my school. It'll also give me an easy class junior year (yay! she says sarcastically). My school doesn't offer AP English Language, so we're stuck with Honors English for 11th grade. </p>

<p>I'll be self-studying APES this year and maybe AP Stats if I don't take the course somewhere. I'll also self-study AP Physics C while taking Physics 1. I've already taken Psychology at the local community college.</p>

<p>Should I switch any courses (besides the required ones?)</p>

<p>Will this be doable if I do NHD, MUN, and Robotics?</p>

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<p>Your sophomore year seems perfectly doable to me.
As for junior year, I advise you to NOT self study for AP Physics C while taking AP Physics 1 and AP Calculus at the same time. It’ll definitely be tough. AP Physics C requires calculus knowledge. So basically, you’re learning something in one class to know how to do the math for another class. With that said, that doesn’t mean that your planned schedule for junior year isn’t doable. I have a friend who took AP Calculus C and AP Calculus AB during his senior year. However, he took AP Physics B his junior year and has some knowledge for AP Physics C.
Maybe self-study AP Physics C during your senior year??? OR maybe take AP Physics C in class your senior year, and self-study AP Biology since it’s an easier class.
Also from what I’ve heard (don’t take my words for it though), colleges like it when you take AP Physics 1 (or AP Physics B, but it no longer exists) one year, and continue the next year with AP Physics C. They’ll really like it especially when you do well in the first physics class. It’ll be an advantage. </p>

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<p>I’ve heard AP Physics C is one of the “do-not-take-it-else-you-will-die” classes at my school (along with APUSH and APES), which is why I want to self-study it. I don’t want to self study Bio because I really don’t like Bio, so the class will give me an incentive to actually learn stuff.</p>

<p>I might change the class I’ll take instead of Journalism to AP Physics C, though. That was my original plan, until my sister told me that if I’m taking Calculus and AP Physics 1, I shouldn’t bother taking the AP Physics C course; but then, things might have changed since she went to my school.</p>