Eva Covarrubias is a typical 5-year-old who loves everything from blocks to dolls. In school, she loves art, math and her teacher. But ever since she was a toddler, the La Mirada girl has shown she’s gifted.
“Her piano teacher has told me that she’s developing perfect pitch,” Eva’s mother Anna Laguna said. “We would go out, and she would hear songs. And she would come back, and she’d start playing it. She’d teach herself how to play them on the piano.”
It started before she was two when she learned her ABC’s and could count to 100.
“At about 3 years old, she also started to read, and she would sound out words on her own,” Laguna said. “I would read her books, but I would never try to make her read words.”
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A family member noted how rare it was. Eva’s parents tested her IQ with an educational psychologist, and she scored high enough to be accepted into the Mensa Honor Society, the largest organization for people with high IQ’s. This means she scored in the top 2% on a standardized intelligence test. She’s also a part of the Davidson Young Scholars Program.