Victoria Cowie will almost always be the smartest person in the room, said Claire Ellicott in the London Daily Mail. The 11-year-old from Shropshire, England, was extraordinarily bright from an early age, reading elementary-school books as a toddler, but her teachers, parents, and Victoria, too, were shocked when she scored 162 on an IQ test. That surpasses the 160 thought to belong to Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. “When I got the results, I was really surprised,” Cowie says. “It’s quite daunting to be compared to great minds, but it feels good also to be thought of as that clever.”
Cowie hardly seems like anything other than a normal 11-year-old, other than the fact that she seems to be avidly interested in everything. “I really enjoy science and doing experiments, but I also love acting and dancing and playing musical instruments. I do theater workshops and loads of sports like swimming.” She’s fairly certain what she wants to do with her gifts. “My favorite subject is biology, and I want to be a vet when I’m older because I love animals and I’m not afraid of blood.” Right now, though, she’s got a less ambitious goal. Her parents, she says, have told her to clean up her room.
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