Even I don't know, but maybe some information about me will help you judge. In third grade my father accepted a visiting Professorship at Strachclyde University in Scotland, thus we moved to the land of castles and myth for a whole year. Since the teachers could never keep me quiet, I picked up the language pretty fast, and in a month, the teacher noted to my parents, that I can't keep my mouth shut. All the way up till 8th grade I was involved in humanities. I went to art, literature, history, Russian, and English competitions.
Magnet school means competition after competition.
My sophomore year I basically didn't go to school after March, because I was traveling from one place to another. I competed in chemistry, math, and physics, with national and international results. For my third year I became a foreign exchange student in Iowa. This allowed me to get my high school diploma a year early, and get accepted to MIT . Now I am here, and I love it.