Best elite school for Disabilities

AnonyMom
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:48:21 +0000

For some colleges, if you take the ACT, SAT II’s are not required. You need to check school by school, but take a look at Brown if I remember correctly.

Also, I wonder if you receive accommodations on standardized tests. Standardized test results tend to be a whole lot less “horrible” for LD students when they are accommodated properly.

If you receive accommodations at school based on your LD, your school should have applied for accommodations for you on both the SAT and ACT. If this has not happened, find out who is the liason with SAT & ACT for students with LD’s at your school, get to that person, have him fill out the application and send it in for you ASAP. Then have the school liason make phone contact to try to expedite the decision. Particularly if the school sends in all the documentation (Make sure they have the actual test report the testing psychologist wrote, and that they send the whole thing to the ACT in particular.) and fills out the application forms correctly, the ACT can make decisions pretty quickly. With SAT, it can take longer, but you’ve still got a shot.

Having the same accommodations that help you in school could make a big difference for you on standardized tests. And if you haven’t already, try the ACT. Some students find it easier for them than the SAT. Just don’t give the ACT folks your school’s name or code, so they won’t send them the results. This way, if you don’t like the outcome, you don’t have to tell either your hs (which could put the scores on your transcript if they were officially notified) or colleges. But if the results are better than your SAT results, you can use them instead.