How best to address new ADHD diagnosis in "additional information" section

saintfan
Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:32:46 +0000

I thought I’d get better answers by asking parents rather than getting random answers from kids in the common app forum. DS was diagnosed with ADHD last week (better late than never I guess) after a major mental melt down. Fortunately I was able to expedite appointments and he didn’t suffer an academic meltdown. Overall, though, his academic record is uneven. Test scores are in the high 600s and 4s on APs. GPA ia at 3.4 unweighted and 3.75 weighted. He has taken a challenging AP schedule but the last 2 years his grades were up and down (fortunately up again 2nd semester junior year). He did things like get a B+ in PE because he turned it the one big written assignment late. He isn’t applying to any schools that are academically reachy so he shouldn’t have trouble with admissions, but is hoping for academic merit money at one of his favorites which has a holistic process.

So . . . what is the best way to address the new diagnosis, if at all, in the additional information section. People have said that’s the place to do it, but I thought I’d ask the experts here. His provider faxed a diagnostic letter to his counselor that will be received on Monday but I don’t know if the counselor will address it. His common apps are due by December first.