This article examines the psychological types as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) of students admitted to a public, residential, magnet high school for academically talented and gifted juniors and seniors. These students are compared to two groups of gifted adolescents and two groups of traditional high school students. The magnet school students are significantly like the gifted students and significantly unlike the traditional students. Gifted students seem to have a particular MBTI type distribution. Discussion focused on the implications of this finding to the education of the magnet school students and other gifted students.
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