College Recommendations for ADHD son

UCLA77
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:10:54 +0000

This is a toughy, primarily because of your son’s GPA going into senior year.

He’d have to have at least a 3.0 to get into a UC, along with all the A-G prerequisites – if he had all that, I could make a couple of recommendations for the UCs.

As for Cal State colleges, your son would have an automatic entry if he had a 3.0 to most (not all) of the Cal States. With his GPA, coupled with his ACT and SAT scores, there’s a couple I’d recommend based on either personal experience, or experiences last year of my son’s ADHD (and other LD) friends – I’d put Cal State Monterey Bay at the top of my list, because their disabilities coordinator is amazing, I really liked her. Son’s friends have had success at Chico and Humbolt – I haven’t visited either, so I have no personal experience.

Another kid is doing very well at Santa Clara and has a great support group there, but again, I don’t know about their GPA requirements. Same for University of Arizona and their SALT program.

Finally, some of the community colleges with direct transfer programs to Cal and/or UCLA have superb disabilities programs – SMC is a perfect example, and it’s a great learning center and transition from HS to top academic universities.