Addressing a learning disability in a writing prompt

cptofthehouse
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:30:48 +0000

You know, I know what’s legal, I know what’s right, but it all comes down to presentation in that essay and how each admissions officer perceives that essay.

I would have her send off her applications to several schools with an essay mentioning the disability and to several schools with an essay not mentioning it. Or any variation of the same. That way you can compare. The common application allows you to change the essay for schools. A lot of kids do that when they are applying to very different types of schools.

It’s not an all or nothing thing. She can focus on the disability, making it the focus or make it an ancillary or just touch on it, or obliquely mention it. But I’d have two divergent essays so that if that essay does not present herself well, she has that other chance with the alternate essay