OP - Make sure to include your Foreign Lang. skills somewhere in your application. Eight years is great.
Second the recommendation to look into backups. Some of the LAC’s might be a great fit.
Here are some thoughts:
- Your college prep course load is obviously respectable - now it's just a matter of understanding how the poor grades will impact your admission to a competitive school. For strategy, you may wish to show them that you are on a solid academic path now and that you are doing much better even despite a more challenging course load.
- The more you can demonstrate that your current schoolwork totally offset specific poor prior performance, the better. So, for instance, if you did poorly in Honors Alg. II, then knocking it out of ball park in AP Calc is what you want to do. If you can take BC next year and do well, even better (assuming you are taking AB now and that your school offers BC). If you can't, then keep the AP Stats as that's a respectable AP (though not considered to be as challenging as BC).
- AP Physics is fine and a great thing to have on your transcript.
- The Health is likely required for graduation, correct? (my kids ended up taking Zero or Lunch Hour Health at one point - my son also had to take Independent Study to meet his Gym requrirement due to a full AP/Honors load in 12th). If it's NOT required, then substitute in a harder course.
- Would highly recommend AP Euro as it's considered to be a pretty tough course. However, that will cut into part of your double-period internship so you'd need to make that all work out (zero hour or lunch hour or maybe make part of it an EC rather than for-school credit? Just some suggestions there).
- You basically want your core solids - Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts - on your schedule every year (though doubling up in order to make room for further tough courses later on is ok if manageable) and you want to be taking the toughest of those solids that you can manage and still do well. As fun and interesting as the "applied" courses are, they are no substitute for a tough college-prep curriculum. However . . .
- AP studio is a great idea! It's a challenging course (at least my oldest found it to be so amidst all her other AP work). It satisfies a fine arts requirement and shows talent. Make sure to submit some of your artwork as a supplement.
Good luck to you!