I literally can't take more than 1 AP class next year :')

APs are not a magic bullet. There are plenty of schools that don’t offer any AP, and lots that don’t let 9th (or even 10th) graders take them.

Every school provides the colleges you apply to with the options available to students, including the number & type of advanced classes and averages of participants and outcomes. Your application will be evaluated in the context of what was available to you. Your GC will check a box on your app to indicate how ‘rigorous’ your courses were- which does not mean that you took every AP available, but that in the context of your school you took a most / very / highly / average / below average / not rigorous class schedule. If you are looking at competitive colleges, take the hardest levels available to you - and get top grades in them.

You also don’t need an ‘official’ GPA before the end of 11th: you know what your grades are in your core academic classes (English / Math / Lab Science / Social Science / Foreign Language- you should be taking 1 of each of those each year). Your UW GPA in those classes is the most useful GPA # (an A=4, B=3, C=2- add it up & divide by the # of classes).

Whatever your goals are for college (and I would expect them to change or modify a bit over the next 2.5 years), this is the best advice going: