Not necessarily.   I was STEM all the way, and the top STEM student at a school in an area where a lot of parents worked for tech firms.   It was derailed in part through a really negatively bullying experience with a teacher subsequently.    I have reason to believe there were outside influences (secret societies?) who prompted this teacher to bully aggressively given some odd coincidences that have since occurred involving the same person as well as some other people who seem to be connected to it.

His whole objective seemed to be to destroy any and all confidence I had.   It was bad.   Today, I doubt he would get away with it because it was too aggressive and overt to avoid attention attention from the authorities.