Should I take AP Calculus BC senior year?

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Hello there.

I’m currently a junior in high school and I’m choosing my schedule for next year. First of all I came to the US during my sophomore year and I was placed in college prep Math, english, History, and science courses. This year I jumped to honors Math and AP Lang (but I struggle a little in this since english is not my first language and I suck at timed writings). The rest of my courses are electives and college prep US History.

Next year I want to make my schedule more rigorous so more colleges will accept me. I plan on taking AP Lit, AP Government, AP Chem, and AP Calc BC. I am not sure if taking four APs senior year is good, but I’m wondering if choosing Calc BC would make my schedule too hard and if I’d end up more exhausted than a normal senior would. I want to take it because I’m good at Math and I’m up for a challenging course, but maybe with other hard APs it wouldn’t be appropriate. What should I do?

I would really appreciate some help. Thank you!

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If you want to drop an AP I would recommend lit. One, its really reading heavy, and since English is your second language it would probably take up the most time. Two, most colleges don’t give credit for both Lang and Lit, only one or the other. Three, (at least depending on what you want to do) taking Calc I think would be more useful and many colleges recommend math senior year. Does your school offer any interesting English classes senior year? (I know mine offers like mythology and stuff along with basic English and AP lit).

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If ou’re good at math and are getting B+ in pre-calculus honors, you should be fine with calculus BC.
I agree AP literature would be difficult - go meet with you current AP teacher and with the ap lit teacher too.
4 AP 's should be manageable, so beside AP gov, AP Chemistry, and AP calculus, you could take AP physics 1 or AP history (world or European depending on where you come from).