<p>I am considering for my junior year of high school to take these AP Classes:</p>
<p>AP English
AP US History
AP Calculus
AP Statistics
AP Physics
AP Microeconomics
AP Biology
AP Art History
AP Music Theory</p>
<p>The last four I am taking online because I do not have enough room in my schedule to take them in school. How heavy is my workload going to be? Should I remove a few of these courses?</p>
<p>Lol, that’s way too much. You will have bad grades if you pack that much coursework into your schedule. It also makes you look tryhard-ish. Do the courses that will help you and the ones that you love.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as “Too many AP Classes,” as this type of workload is often done by AP State Scholars or those trying to become one. The question is whether or not you think you’ll have time for all of these classes and whatever ECs that you plan to do.</p>
<p>Hehehe… I was like you once. I was a college-obsessed junior that thought I needed to take as many AP courses as possible because it would make me stand out as a student. I thought I needed 7 in my Junior year, and 7 in my Senior year. Why would I do this? Because I could. Because I NEEDED to. But I didn’t do that. Instead, I took 5 APs Junior year, and will take 6 APs senior year. I ended with a fine GPA for any of the schools you and I want to apply to. You can chance me with my “relaxed” profile here: </p>
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<p>You seem like the type of person who’s driven, eager to enter college, and is aiming for the stars. I don’t blame you for your ambition; in fact, it makes you one of the strongest candidates for college admission out there. You deserve eloquently stated advice that will both ground you and make you aware of how good your application is right now. Here it goes:</p>
<p>To put it bluntly, colleges don’t give two **<strong><em>s of a </em></strong> whether or not you take 5 APs, or in your case, 9 AP CLASSES in one year. Not very eloquent, I admit, but worth stating in the manner that it was.</p>
<p>You’ve already proven you can handle rigor with 3. 4 AP classes pushes that limit. 5 APs makes you transcend all that the average student could ever perform. 6 APs will nearly kill you. 7 or 8 in a year puts you eye-to-eye with the devil himself. 9 AP classes is an ungodly feat to be performed, and you will hate yourself by November for that excessive ambition. DO NOT DO IT. </p>
<p>Stick with the 5 AP classes your school is offering you, explain to the college why your school would not allow you to do the other 4 AP classes you wanted to do, and stress out over 5 classes, not 9.</p>
<p>Thank you movieman, you give great advice.</p>
<p>In my personal opinion, it is a bad idea to take classes online, when they are not needed. It does not make you look any better. When colleges look at course difficulty, they look at it in context with what is offered at your school. If scheduling stops you, it will stop everyone else, and there is no need to take any online.</p>
<p>I might drop both music theory and art history, I feel as if I need to keep my other courses to have a good grasp on an ivy. I also need some time, because I am hoping to get outstanding EC’s, I do not yet know how much time my EC’s will consume.</p>
<p>If you are going to be able to keep up on the course work than it isn’t to many classes. but if you get 70 in the AP than it isn’t doing you any good. You have to know your balance, and in the future what is too much, if you have to drop a class.</p>
<p>However if you are able to get above 85 in these classes than more power too you. It will look great on an application. If you fail them than colleges will look at your application and will not be impressed.</p>