<p>Okay, something of your experience in the reverse.
My daughter was a humanities oriented ballet dancer whose Subject Tests were Literature, World History, and American History.
She worked as a volunteer three days a week taking apart carcasses in the Mammal Department at the Field Museum here in Chicago, and reclassifying the collection in terms of a new system.
She was admitted to and is attending Princeton (and is actually in the midst of doing two terms at Oxford).
If your science and math oriented son took part in acting in a local Shakespeare troop (for example) with enthusiasm, it would be a combination pretty rare in the college admissions pool.
I’m not advocating “playing the system”. I just want to point out that your son doesn’t have to prove his academic bone fides in some course or testing way, if that is not where his strength lies. One of my very big beefs with formal schooling through high school is that school professionals tend to focus on your weaknesses. In adult life if you are good at one thing (let alone two!), that is considered to be one terrific accomplishment. You are going to be be success in life.
I’m sure that to some folks, “going naked” without courses, grades or outside validation is a risk. But I’ve had two kids who thoroughly enjoyed the trip and who did who not suffer in college admissions.
What might your son enjoy with Shakespeare or some other humanities involvement? It would likely be unpredictable. For my part, second hand through my daughter, I wonder why the internal organs of mammals are such vivid colors. What’s the purpose of that? I’m sure I have no idea.</p>