My Course load Predicament

<p>Hi guys, I'm a newcomer here, (well, not really, because i've been reading posts beforehand, but i've only registered now =]).</p>

<p>I've having a bit of trouble arranging my courses around.
I'm a sophomore in high school, and I'm planning to go into business.
My school offers around 16-18 AP classes...but only some that I feel are worth taking in my case.</p>

<p>Some of the classes are oddly designed so that I can ONLY take them in my senior year, like AP French. Then there are the classes that my school has, that are AP weighted and provide college credits, but they don't have an AP exam for these classes. (College Accounting I, which I'm taking now, and Business Organization and Management and Concepts of Business Management, which I'm going to take in my junior and senior year respectively).</p>

<p>My first question: will colleges deem these as "AP" classes? like will they be counted as an Advanced Placement course?</p>

<p>So I've decided to self-study for the AP Econ and AP Biology exams this year, because I'd like the experience, the credit that I've taken the course (apparently my school does that), and because I love economics and biology.</p>

<p>I'm in the midst of planning classes for my junior year, and the only other AP classes I can take are AP Language and Composition, which I'm taking. I want to make my junior year courseload as challenging as possible, but I can't find AP courses I'd actually LIKE taking. There is AP Physics and AP Chem, but in my school, each of those subjects takes up two whole periods, in which I could easily put other business classes. </p>

<p>So I'm planning to self study for more AP exams, like AP Psych, Envr. Sci., possibly World History, U.S. Gov., and one more that I have to pick (suggestions?) as I want to try and get the National AP Scholar Award. </p>

<p>THEN, in my senior year, my dear school has left me with taking AP Calc. AB, AP Stat, AP Lit, and AP French V. (possibly U.S. History, Chem, or Physics too)
so therefore, I have a rigorous, well not the most, but considerably so, in my senior year, and I'm concerned with the fact that it may affect colleges' decisions about me? =/</p>

<p>So my tentative schedule for junior year looks like this:</p>

<p>Advanced precalc
honors french IV
gym (haha)
business org. & management
ap lang. & comp.
honors global studies
honors human anatomy & physiology or AP Chem
theatre arts or AP Chem</p>

<p>for senior year:</p>

<p>AP Calc.
AP Stat
AP Lit
AP French
Concepts of Business Management (AP weighted and i get college credits too!)
PEER Leadership
International Business or AP Physics/Chem
theatre arts or AP US History or AP Physics/Chem</p>

<p>so i'm looking for general comments on the difficulty of my course load in both junior & senior year, and how they may affect me in college admissions? </p>

<p>If you actually took the time to read through this whole thing, thank you! And thanks in advance to those who answer! :]</p>

<ol>
<li>If the college board does not offer an AP exam for a class, it is not an AP class. Especially in terms of what colleges will think.</li>
<li>If you get college credits from your local state U or something of the sort, it's nice, but it might not actually transfer.</li>
</ol>

<p>about the college credits, i'm getting 10 credits in all, and i know princeton doesn't accept them, but u. penn did.</p>

<p>any comments on my courses? thanks again. :]</p>

<p>take AP stats Junior year instead of theatre arts, if you dont want AP chem.</p>