[whackedwatchdog]

I'd like to weigh in on this as well. When I was in high school (I graduated from there in 2010, and am currently at Georgia Tech working my way through a Bachelors in Computer Science), we offered a full run of "Liberal Arts" classes, drama, philosophy, art, band and chorus. This in addition to three languages (A fourth was added, and removed two years later). We obviously had the necessary English courses, histories, and social sciences which are core classes in the state of Georgia. All of those could be taken for 4 years (we had the same class all year, so effectively, you were taking these courses the entire time you were in high school) On the STEM side, we had a 4 year math program, and then a 2 year web-design program, 2-year "programming" column (Which has finally been bumped up to 3), and perhaps one or two other courses which ran for one or two semesters. It seemed to me that it was significantly easier to get into liberal arts with the abundance of classes, and resources available than the STEM fields, but that's just me.