Next year is my junior year. My friends thin I’m taking to much on next year.
My schedule looks like this
School day-
AP Biology
AP Language and Composition
AP US History
Newspaper (advanced Journalism class)
Algebra II
Speech and Debate
After school:
Mondays - intern at local paper (afternoon)
Tuesdays - Academic Decathlon practice (afternoon);
Wednesdays - Science Bowl (afternoon); band practice at the local JC (evening)
Thursdays - ACT prep (afternoon) ASL at the local JC (evening)
Fridays - work
Weekends:
Saturdays - Local city band practice
Sundays - Volunteering at Animal Shelter or Vets Home (I switch off every other week)
Is this to much like my friends seem to think or is this not enough to reach my dream of attending UC Berkeley????
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Quantity does not substitute for quality. It's much better to be deeply involved in 2-3 activities than dabble in 16 activities.
3-4 AP courses per year is about all anyone can expect high school students to accomplish, so you're fine there.
Journalism and the newspaper internship compliments each other, so keep those.
You can probably unload couple of activities between AD, Science Bowl (unless you want to get into a science major), band (but it sounds like you had band for a few years, if so, keep it), and the animal shelter/vets home.
Try to expand on the activities you do keep, for example, you can ask the newspaper where you intern if you can write up some local band performances.