learning disability..how do you disclose it in your apps?

Anona
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:00:53 +0000

Interesting consideration about whether or not special ed is noted on a transcript (courses). That is something that parents should consider checking out. In my son’s case, they changed the coding of “LD Support” to “Academic Support” or some such name. A savvy college could tell it was sped, though, because of the course number (x in the front, if I recall), and they can quickly figure out what “Academic Support” means. Of course, in my son’s case, his resource class was simply a glorified study hall. (He needed help with pragmatics/social skills and not academics.) His A’s in that class counted into his GPA.

I think that disclosing a disability should be done carefully in college admissions. There is no affirmative action for disabilities in college and no benefit like there is for disclosing that one is a URM.