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[quote=Anonymous]There are definitely students at TJ who end up choosing humanities majors in college, although less probably choose such a STEM heavy school knowing ahead of time that they don’t want to focus on STEM.

The TJ diploma is very structured around STEM and leaves very few electives for humanities courses without summer school.

A few TJ requirements that most don’t know about before applying:

**Students are required to take 4 years of math while at TJ. Your son is on pace to take calculus in 10th grade. He will still be required to take math in 11th and 12th grade even though he took 3 years of math in middle school.

**Students are required to take a laboratory Science class all 4 years at TJ (including senior year.
 In addition to Biology, Chemistry, and
either AP Physics 1, AP Physics C M or AP Physics CM&EM, the 4th-
credit requirement can be satisfied with:
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
Physics 2
AP Environmental Science

If a student has already completed 4 courses from the list above by senior year they can choose to take one of the TJ science electives their senior year.

The 4 years of science required does not include the Senior research lab (which is one credit senior year).

**Honors Computer Science is required for all students.

9th - 
-IBET (English, Biology, Design & Tech) required 3 integrated courses.
-math (your son would be in AP Precalculus AB or BC)
-Foreign Language unless a student already has 3 years of the same language (TJ doesn’t allow 2 + 2 for languages)
PE (possibly to do this over the summer to have space for an extra elective)
1 elective (most students take CS freshman year)

A 4th social studies course has to be taken sometime before graduation.

Take a look at the 4 year course planning page  for TJ Students:
https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/Four%20Year%20Plan%201-28-19.pdf

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/tjhsst-diploma-requirements

Students must take math, science, English, Social Studies core classes at TJ, these can not be taken online or through summer school. CS must be taken at TJ, not online or through FCPS summer school.

The senior research labs all have prerequisites that need to be completed as well.

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