Exactly. Colorado College came to mind. I wonder if the freer curriculums would be helpful too, like Brown, Amherst, Hamilton, where there isn’t the requirement to do a lot of gen eds that aren’t of interest. Yale actually has a lot of distribution requirements.
Another question for the OP to consider is, as I wrote before, large lectures vs smaller discussion-based classes, and who teaches them.
Also opportunities to continue current interests.
Yes, absolutely. I am basically just seconding you, but I know other ADHD kids who have looked for schools with open curriculums or at least more flexible distributional requirements (see, for example, the University of Rochester). Also schools where you can potentially design your own major. And as you mentioned, schools with relatively few large lectures. Of course you can also see what they say about accomodations and support.
Just as a general observation, I think it is sometimes a good idea to think of these colleges as service providers, and you as a potential customer. Normally when shopping for a service provider, you don’t think in terms of changing what you want so you can buy it from a certain provider. Instead, you look for providers who offer what you want for your own reasons.
I know because of competitive admissions, peer and family pressure, and so on, this dynamic has sometimes been reversed, like you are the seller and your “dream college” is the buyer and you have to try to figure out what they want to buy and try to be that. But you don’t have to play it that way, you can take back control of what a good match actually means, and simply not be interested in colleges which don’t actually offer what you really want/need.
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