Schedule for Junior year (5 APs???)

is 5 AP’s doable for a junior who’s extracurriculars are All-star cheerleading, Yearbook, and student government plus volunteer work. I currently have an unweighted GPA of 4.0. (3 honors core, APES, 2 honors elective, chorus)

  1. AP English Language (at our school -Honors teacher is just as rigorous at AP so about same amount of homework-both crazy hard)
  2. AP Euro or APUSH (AP Euro is favorite teacher that I’ve ever had and this is my only chance to have her again. Slightly less workload for AP Euro than APUSH (Crazy hard teacher with heavy workload -loves busy work, but also an AP test grader. Both rigorous. If I take AP Euro, I have to take APUSH. The only other option is US History for 2 years taught by same APUSH teacher). If I take APUSH, I can use AP Art History or AP Pysch as elective
  3. AP Bio or AP Physics - AP Bio teacher teaches APEs this year and I had her for Honors Bio. She doesn’t give a heavy workload at all. The only other option is Honors Chemistry but that teacher is not very good. Physics teacher is to be hired so an unknown I “need” physics or chemistry but I want to wait a year to up my math levels.
  4. AP Art History -A wonderful teacher who may be retiring soon and he is only teaching AP Art History next year. I want to have this professor before I graduate. I think it will combine with AP Euro. It will fulfill one of my 8 required arts courses. My friends in the is class vary in grades but most are sophomores. The juniors seem to be handling it fine.
  5. AP Psychology -An area of intense interest. It will be a very small class as only 6 of us have the prerequisite Honors Cognitive Development class. Teacher to be hired.
  6. Honors Precalculus -Most likely to be taught by Math 3 teacher. He gives homework but is flexible and doens’t overload,
  7. Honors Chorus -usually no homework but some performances

You know your limitations best, but you’ve done a pretty good job thinking it all out. At first glance, it looks manageable. AP Psychology is widely viewed as an “AP lite” class, so the workload will probably not be more than a comparable honors class. My only question would be, depending upon your choice of colleges, have you completed level 4 of a foreign language?

Is there a word missing here?