^ To summarize, if you have personal interests and strengths, please show them senior year. If you don’t, follow the general route but odds aren’t better. The reader wants to have a clear sense of who you are and what you are about.
For a humanities student who can take 3 AP’s, calculus shouldn’t be one of the three, and if a class is cut because that student is exhausted and stressed out, it shouldn’t be drama or a humanities/social science class, because it’d make her profile more common and wouldn’t allow her to show her strengths clearly.
@swtaffy904 : have you come up with a good schedule?