Quantum leap

He balanced his mother’s checkbook when he was only 4 years old. In second grade, he graded his classmates’ math tests. And he idolized Albert Einstein, the physicist who developed the groundbreaking theory of relativity. “I was the kid who read Einstein’s autobiography for fun,” said Mitchell Schneider. “I think my elementary and middle school library had to ship in extra Einstein books because I flew through them.”

Today, Schneider is a sophomore at Wright State University, majoring in both physics and math and carrying a 4.0 GPA. Surprisingly, Schneider was originally poised to major in