<p>I'm a current junior planning my senior year schedule. I'm leaning towards taking six APs next year and I'm not sure if the workload would be too much in addition to applying to colleges. For reference, I'd be taking AP Biology, AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Econ, AP Gov, and AP Psych. This year, I have four AP classes, so it wouldn't be a huge jump, but I'm still not sure.</p>
<p>AP Econ and Gov’t are small courses, so that is more like just one, with both of them. I do not know much about AP Psych, but I have heard that AP English Lit is not too heavy weight also. If you are good at math, which I assume you are, then AP Calculus probably won’t be too bad. I think you will be fine. AP Bio will be the main challenge probably. But if you like the subject, and you probably need more science anyway, then your schedule is fine.</p>
<p>AP Psych is one of the easiest AP Classes if you can learn the vocabulary. From what I understand, it has one of the highest pass rates. </p>
<p>What colleges are you applying to? The majority won’t care if you only take 4 of those, compared to 6. How many does your school offer? What other courses are you taking senior year?</p>
<p>I think you have a good amount of AP courses. I am currently a sophomore, and I am currently taking AP Micro/Macro Economics. I have finished AP Microeconomics and its not that difficult. I’m sure AP Macroeconomics isn’t that hard either. I took AP Psychology as a freshman and it was pretty easy, so you don’t have to worry about that as well.</p>
<p>None of the APs you are in are particularly difficult - even AP Biology is pretty light weight (content wise) compared to Chem and Physics. As for Calc BC, that largely depends on how good of a math student you are – two of my friends who were always good students (not spectacular, but good in H. math, like 94-96 averages) are thriving in Calc BC with close to A+'s every quarter, so depending on your math background and ability, Calc BC also has the potential to be pretty easy.</p>
<p>Regardless, however, 6 APs might lead to a few breakdowns when tests, projects, and presentations happen to overlap one another, which is bound to happen. </p>
<p>You can do it. It just won’t be fun unless you really want to learn about all those subjects. My suggestion is to take out one class in your schedule that you really don’t like. If you’re not very good at English, take off AP English Literature, it would make your life so much easier. If you replace a class you hate with something you like, you wouldn’t even think it is that bad. But you don’t need to do that if you’re really determined. You just need a real motivation, a concrete motivation not I want to get in a good college.</p>