<p>Thats a really respectable courseload, my school offers like the same amount of AP’s (they are all “core” AP’s though, no like Computer Science A or anything)… And all the top students generally do this:
9th: Honors courses
10th: Honors courses, sometimes 1 AP
11th: Honors courses, 2 AP’s
12th: Honors courses, 3-6 AP’s*
(think we had one person get into Harvard last year, and they took 5 AP’s senior year (don’t worry, also had like 10 other people go to Ivies, and many more to top schools… so my school is competitive))</p>
<p>I myself took all honors in 9th and 10th, honors+2 AP’s junior, and taking some honors and 4-5 AP’s senior.
Also, my school has the same system, as in you have to take honor biology before AP Biology.</p>