Senior year schedule - MultiVariable Calculus over summer - do colleges consider it as senior rigor

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I need advice on my senior year course selection - appreciate any advice/input.
Background: Math/CS or Cognitive Science are my intended major/majors. I would have completed all available math, physics and chemistry courses at school by end of junior year (Science AP’s completed by end of junior year: Calculus AB/BC, Stats, Chem, Phy 1 and 2).

Senior year plan: Planning to take these courses for sure: AP CS, AP Bio and AP Lit.
Tentative about AP Psych, US History, Art, MultiVariable Calc online. Cannot accommodate all of them during school year and have to drop at least one. US History and Art are graduation requirements and my guidance councillor is advising me to drop multi variable calculus - AP CS is acceptable math experience as per district grad requirement.

I am not sure if college would treat AP CS as enough math rigor in senior year - especially because I am intending to major in Math (some target colleges have low admit rates like GeorgiaTech, UIUC, UMich). So I am planning to take the MultiVarCalculus course over the summer (in a local college + online) with AP-Psych+History+Art during the school year - question is do college recognize the summer course between junior and senior years towards senior year rigor? Any other course combo suggestions (between AP Psych, US History, Art, MultCalc, AP Macro). Main worry is I don’t want to be seen as out of touch with Math just when I am entering the college.

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Take MVC during the school year. While colleges will appreciate the rigor, condensing the subject into 8 weeks can be treacherous. And going without math for a year may lead to a steep relearning curve in college. If you’re intent on doing a summer course, do a CS course.

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I don’t recommend taking multi-variate over the summer. Squeezing everything in over a few weeks in the summer is not great… Especially with a rigorous class such as MVC. My advice is to take as much math and science/social science as possible while US History or Art is not necessary unless you have a passion for it.

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Multivariable calculus in college is normally a 15 week (one semester) course, like other college math courses. If you took single variable calculus (AB and BC) over two years in high school, you will find college math courses going twice as fast as what you are used to (single variable calculus is normally a two semester sequence).

Obviously, taking a college course over the 8 week summer session means taking it about twice as fast as a normal college course.

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@skieurope @kthai470 @ucbalumnus - thanks for the advice/info. Parents are also suggesting me to take MVC over the school year and either drop AP Psych OR take the US History/Art over summer (taking the grad requirement history over summer from on online high school is allowed).