What would be interesting to hear is what advice your Careers dept at school gives to your enquiry.
If it is divergent from what the majority of industry advice being offered here, tell the school to do some more homework.
Reminds me of hopeful 15 year old medic being told by their school that biology was not necessary at 'A' level.
As paco and I have emphasised recently, mental arithmetic and enjoying numbers play a large part in aviation.
Excelling in Hand to eye coordination is also important ~ so sports with ball games.
Team player?