<p>I am planning on having 4 AP classes:
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
AP US Government and Politics </p>
<p>Along with this I will be the President of Interact Club (already elected), Vice President or Treasurer of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (already know I will be an officer, unsure of which though), Vice president or Treasurer of the National Honor Society (still need to have elections), and member of Link Crew (don't plan on running for an office, although I might decide to run for Secretary or Treasurer). Oh.. I am also currently running for being an Assistant Governor for my Interact District (hoping I get chosen). </p>
<p>Also, I will continue to volunteer at my local hospital for 6 hours a week (current have over 150 hours) and plan on getting a job (I plan on working 20-30 hours). </p>
<p>Anyways, since I will have two open periods in my schedule next year I have decided to do Yearbook (already accepted) and am thinking about doing Student Council (elections are in two weeks). </p>
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<p>This year I am taking 3 AP classes:
AP Chemistry
AP English Language
AP US History </p>
<p>I am a member of Interact Club, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, National Honor Society, and Link Crew (no officer position for any) and am a volunteer at my local hospital. </p>
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<p>Do you think I will be able to handle all of this compared to this year?
Should I not take as many officer positions?
Should I not do both yearbook and student council?</p>
<p>I don’t think your academic schedule next year is any more rigorous than this year’s. Govt is pretty easy. If you are performing well this year, you should be OK next year. I don’t know the workload of your EC’s. Here, NHS and student council is not time-consuming. I think it will be OK.</p>
<p>AP calc is definitely easier than AP chem…so… 
(In my opinion-took both)
AP lit and AP bio are pretty chill classes. They are not difficult to manage at all.
So I think you’ll be fine. Well, as long as senioritis won’t get to you. lol</p>
<p>This depends on your teacher. History is not a hard course, but because of my teacher, the class is really stressful. </p>
<p>Just try to gauge how stressed (or not) you are now, and then add the stress of college applications, college decisions, scholarship applications, etc., and that’s about how your senior year will be. It won’t be easy, but, hey, I’m surviving!</p>
<p>FWIW, it helps a lot if you write your essays this summer instead of waiting until school starts. And applying for outside (Fastweb-esque) scholarships is a waste of time because hardly anyone gets them. I didn’t have to do anything for financial aid other than filling out forms with my parents’ financial information. </p>
<p>If you did well this year, next year will be a little of a challenge. Those AP classes are all seriously hard ones, English Lang. If you did well on all the APs this year, then go for it!</p>
<p>AP Bio has the potential to be difficult; you’ll know better than we how much of a hard-*** your teacher is.
AP Calc AB is generally a joke. You learn a little, but if you’ve taken pre-calc or trig don’t worry.
AP English Lit varies sooooo much. The largest factor for difficulty is whether or not you live in a district that requires you do a senior exit/ capstone project. These can sometimes triple your English class workload (speaking from experience)
AP Gov is another history course. Consider, though, that if it is a senior course at your school, expectations may be lower than you anticipated because teachers realize seniors stop caring. This might apply for any class.
On the ECs: Hey, I didn’t know Interact club had district offices! I would have done that, dang.
The rest of them seem simple enough, but they’ll be however much you make of them. The volunteering and job stuff seems not too challenging either.
A Final Note: High-achieving juniors never ever ever ever ever realize just how much they will be done with high school by November of senior year. Take this into consideration.</p>