Junior year schedule

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi everyone,
I am a sophomore and I am in the process of choosing classes for next year. Here are my grades so far for my sophomore classes:
Chemistry: A
AP World History: -A
Precalculus: A
Spanish 4 honors: A+
English 10 honors: A

For junior year, I am planning to take:
AP Biology
Dual enrollment/honors US history
AP Calc AB
AP Stats
AP Lang

Another possible schedule:
Honors physics
dual enrollment/honors us history
Ap calc ab
Ap stats
AP lang

AP Bio
dual enrollment/honors us
AP Calc AB
Spanish 5 honors
AP Lang

Which schedule is better? BTW- I am pretty interested in all of the AP classes I want to take except for AP biology… I don’t really want to go into a science field; I am leaning towards business. That is why I am trying to take 2 math classes(also because I enjoy math). I kind of want to know the difficulty of all of these APs and if I should consider dropping one if the overall schedule is too hard (especially AP Bio because I don’t really want to take it…)

Im wondering if adding AP stats to 3 other APs in core classes will be too much or if it’s an okay class.

Also, I am aiming for a top 20 school and have pretty good extracurriculars that I want to have time to pursue as well. I want a hard schedule but not so hard that I get Cs and fail everything.

Thank you!

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There are 3 potential schedules up there, btw.

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If you are not into STEM, don’t take AP Biology. I took the class last year and can attest to its very technical and detailed nature.

Also, many colleges request their applicants to have one of each of biology, chemistry, and physics, so if you haven’t taken physics yet and plan on applying to any of these schools, I would stick with the second schedule you listed. Four college or college-level classes plus Honors-level science junior year should be sufficiently rigorous for just about anywhere.

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thank you for the reply. would it be okay to take 3 ap (calc, lang, apush) and honors Spanish and honors physics? I really enjoy all of those classes and I think its rigorous also. Do you know anything about the aps mentioned and their difficulty?

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Yes, that schedule would actually be the best and considered the most rigorous.