Senior year, I plan on taking
AP Lit
AP Calc AB
AP Gov/Microeconomics
AP Drawing
AP Psychology
Spanish 3
Is this too much?
For reference, I have only taken 1 AP because the ones I find most interesting are only offered senior year. My high school also offers a lot of APs (21), and I want to be competitive to colleges. I just don’t want to burn out and be overly stressed.
AP English literature and AP calculus AB are just the typical progressions from the honors English and math sequences, so if you did well in the prior honors courses, then these should not be significantly overloaded.
Spanish 3 is obviously a continuation of Spanish 1 and 2.
AP psychology, government, and microeconomics are not generally considered to be among the hardest of AP courses, and AP government can be thought of as the honors version of typically required government or civics courses. Have you previously taken honors or AP level social studies?
AP art may depend on how interested and skilled you are at art.
No science? What science have you completed?
No.
Biology, Chemistry Honors, and AP Physics.
This is a lot of APs. Whether it is too much will depend upon the student.
For me personally, AP Literature would have killed me, AP Drawing would have been a disaster, AP Economics would be fine, and AP Calculus would have been a walk in the park.
However, you are I are different people. What you can handle and what some other student can handle may be quite different.
You do not need to load up on AP classes in order to get into very good universities. There are a lot of very good universities in the US.
I do think that trying to figure out how much of a heavy academic load is right for each student is a very tough thing to predict in advance.