Question about grade 12 courses (study for the SAT)

[Ergan]

i'm going into grade 12 next year (senior), in canada. i will be taking 7 academic core subjects, math, pre-calc, social studies, english, bio, chem, physics. I'm in a semester system, so up to 4 cores in 1 semester, and 4 in the other.

Currently i'm leaning towards this setup:

1st semester: math, bio, chem
2nd semester: pre-calc, social, english, physics

the reason is that i want max time to study for the SAT Is in the first semester, so i might be taking a spare (meaning no class in that time slot). Also, i want to take Math 2, bio, and chem for my SAT IIs. I'm going into business/finance in uni.

but heres the thing:

Will by taking only 3 courses in the first semester, therefore only submitting 3 complete marks, make your uni application look bad? like if someone else has 4 marks or whatnot.

Also, would it be wise to take a spare, cause i read from harvard/princeton's sites that they want students who maximize their work load, make me look lazy? or will they not care?

thank you
Ergan

[aaa]

Hey, you don't have to spare so much time for the SAT!!!
Study some vocab (3500 Barrons' words or so) and the New SAT will be a piece of cake. Besides, you are studying in Canada, so SAT words is not a hard problem. As for the SAT II, what you have learnt in school is more than enough.

[Joe]

Oh i don't have trouble with words at all... its the other aspects of the test. ie math and whatnot. vocab is the area i have the least problem in.

[aaa]

Sorry, I thought your problem was verbal (like almost everyone in my country).
Your case is completely different from mine .
sometimes I just want to know a bit more words so that my test scores will look less math-oriented .
Don't worry about you math result! Just try doing it carefully and you'll get at least a 780 in math SAT I. For Math SAT II, you can have some questions wrong and still get a 800!
For me, I've always had trouble with "sentence completion" and usually get stuck on the last 2-3 sentences in a section.
ha ha... That's simply because i don't know 4/5 of the answer choices and the only word i know is usually not the right one!!!
What do U mean by "whatnot"?