Is there enough rigor in my schedule?

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Hi College Confidential,
My junior year schedule could be:

AP Calculus AB
AP Statistics
AP Literature
European History Honors
Spanish Honors
Biology
Free Period/Lunch

Is this schedule impressive enough for elite universities? I could add AP Government instead of Lunch or take biology at the honors level but that may be too hard to handle. Rumor has it that Biology Honors is very hard at my school and requires a lot of work per night.

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What schools are you considering?

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AP Stats in addition to AP Calculus AB in junior year seems to be overkill. How many courses does your school require that you take junior year? Do you know what you would be interested in studying in college?

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Hello, thanks for the replies so far.
6 Courses are required for junior year. I am intending to be an economics major, and some schools that I am interested in is Northwestern, Rice, WashU, Emory, Vanderbilt, and similar schools. I am intending to take AP Economics senior year which may make it difficult to delay taking AP Stats until senior year.

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The person to ask is your guidance counselor, not any one of us. Rigor is relative to what is offered in your HS.

The top tier colleges will want to see the guidance counselor check the box on the recommendation saying you have taken the most rigorous course-load available at your HS (which doesn’t mean taking every AP class – there is often some latitude in this). If the guidance counselor says that your prior and projected HS schedules are sufficient to get that most rigorous box checked then you are fine.