take 6 classes if you must-- but drop the AP statistics as it makes your application look like you are trying to “impress” admins with meaningless AP classes.
Trust me- they WON’T be impressed that you took AP STAT. They KNOW it to be an easy class.
Take a NON AP class for FUN.
re Class rank- Most top colleges them because 1- 50% of applicants schools dont rank, 2- a lot of “fluff” classes can raise the “rank” of students, and 3- they have their own method of calculating GPA’s.