<p>To ucbalumnus:
“You will probably find AB boringly slow; it covers about a semester of university freshman calculus over a year. BC is approximately the same pace as a university freshman calculus course that students zero years ahead in math are expected to be able to handle.”</p>
<p>The problem is, in college you take like 3 classes at a time. The OP is taking 8. And besides, the AB curriculum covers more topics than most Calculus I courses.</p>
<p>There’s nothing stopping the OP from taking the BC test later on; his/her sophomore year won’t be very fun with a bad math teacher and tons of work from other classes to do.</p>