<p>The lop-sidedness you speak of DOES NOT come from taking a lopsided balance of courses while in high school. The specialization comes from participating in extracurricular activities either during the school year (after school) or during the summer time. Those activities can be in an academic area, such as science, math, computer science, etc. or can be in a sport, music, art, drama, dance debating, volunteering etc. For example, here’s a student who is lopsided, but I bet not at the expense of FL and History: [Intel</a> Science Fair winner detects pancreatic cancer early, cheaply | Marketplace.org](<a href=“http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/intel-science-fair-winner-detects-pancreatic-cancer-early-cheaply]Intel”>Intel Science Fair winner detects pancreatic cancer early, cheaply - Marketplace)</p>