<p>A friend’s D (a current HS senior) had very lopsided ACT scores (she didn’t take the SAT). She had 30 in reading and 16 in math, and a composite in the low 20’s. She has a visual/spatial LD (I’m not sure what that is, but she never got any services in connection with it), and she wrote a brief statement explaining her score disparity by saying that she has a problem with math but she still took college prep math courses and just learned to work harder at it. Her B to B+ grades in math proved this out. She also wrote that she has learned to play to her strengths, and specified majors that were not at all math related. She also wrote a very good essay, one that admissions folks at several schools commented on. Bottom line - she got into 11 out of 13 schools she applied to (including Marist), and got decent merit money (half tuition) at several of them. She wasn’t applying to top tier schools, but rather to CTCL-type LACs that were good fits for her.</p>