Nicole Matisse is 19 years old and by the time she is 20 she would have already completed her bachelor's. Although it is not uncommon to earn a graduation degree at that age, it is the time period - just one year - that Matisse would need to achieve it.

After entering as a junior in the University of Michigan last fall with 19 credits in her hand, Matisse earned 27 more by winter and is set to take 34 more by summer.

She will officially graduate in the summer with a bachelor's degree in psychology while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average.

While her accomplishments have astonished everyone including her advisers, it comes as no surprise to her mother who says her daughter learned multiplying at the age of 3.

"I don't think I did anything differently than other moms," her mother, Pamela Naboychik told the Detroit News. "But I do remember reading to her for at least three hours a day. And we'd always do projects together, involving science or math or crafts."

For now Matisse, who would like to become a successful trial lawyer and eventually a Supreme Court justice, has her eyes set at the Wayne State University law school in Detroit, but she has other plans too.

Matisse would like to marry, become a wife and have children.

"I don't think that my intellectual pursuits will take precedence over my future familial obligations," she said.