NROTC questions

dodgersmom
Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:02:20 +0000

Dyslexia is absolutely an automatic DQ.



No, it is not. Although checking the DoDMERB website, as you suggested, is far from straightforward, what I found at [Medical Standards for Appointments and Enlistments](http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/613003p.pdf), after searching there for “dyslexia,” states that disqualification is not automatic:



History of learning disorders (315), including but not limited to dyslexia (315.02), UNLESS applicants demonstrated passing academic and employment performance without utilization of academic and or work accommodations at any time since age 14.



If you have information from a DoD source that states otherwise, please provide the link.

You appear to be quite knowledgeable about military matters and I, admittedly, know absolutely nothing. But my limited research contradicts what you’ve said. Unless you can back up the claims you’ve made regarding “automatic disqualification,” please don’t speculate.

Further, to the best of my knowledge, neither College Board nor ACT currently reports whether or not a test was taken with accommodations, despite this having been the practice in the past. That would, of course, not relieve the candidate from declaring the accommodations himself.

Now, whether the OP can satisfy the standard I’ve quoted above is another matter entirely. But at least he’s got a heck of a lot more of a chance than he’d have with “automatic disqualification”!