Is my course-load going to be too hard?

plasticwrap
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:47:00 +0000

Hi all, I’m a current high school sophomore and I’m registering for classes for my junior year. For context, I go to a small private school in CA and there are no AP’s offered to freshman or sophomores, and the only AP’s the school offers are considered “essential.” This year I took English 2 Honors, Geo Honors w/Trig, Chem Honors, Bio Honors, French 2, Required Religion class, and orchestra. I earned A’s in all of them. Next year this is what I’m planning on taking:

AP English Lit
APUSH
Precalc Honors (Sem. 1 is precalc, sem 2 is AP Calc AB)
AP Chem
AP Bio (I’m also thinking about a class called AT Physics w/Trig which is an equivalent of AP Physics 1, but I don’t have to take the AP test)
French 3 Honors
Orchestra

I feel like that is a huge difference compared to what I’m taking now. For anyone who has experience with these AP classes, any and all advice is welcome! I’m struggling to decide whether I should go through with this or not.