Question about Revealing ADHD

Applying to College Learning Differences and Challenges - LD, ADHD
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This is great info and advice, thank you! Yes, I absolutely need to take off the training wheels this year.

D26 is pretty good about using Google Keep to track all her assignments and assessments (my D22 was the classic overachiever student, now thriving at Rice, and she very patiently showed her younger sister all her methods). Her upcoming senior year is stacked with BC Calc, AP Lit, AP Bio, plus an AP-weighted STEM Seminar in which she’ll have to stay on top of an individual project all year – and I know it will be challenging. Perfect time to practice the executive function skills! (Getting up and out the door, however, is a work in progress, lol.)

I doubt I can get her interested in an SEC school even if one had the exact program she wants (which I don’t think any do) – the vibe is just not what she wants. Plus she’s a marching band kid, and the competitive band at Auburn is way too much. (She’d rather not march at all and play with the fun hockey pep band at RIT instead of trying to get in and then keep up with a band that’s too consuming. Which is surprising to hear from my marching band purist, lol, but that’s how she feels.)

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No worries.I totally understand why Auburn could be a tough sell. I just thought I would mention it because it does have both a very good engineering program and excellent resources for ADHD kids. My S22 had no interest in it either. He preferred a smaller and more intellectual environment. When we attended his older brother’s Auburn graduation he was incredulous that we had to wait while my older son enthusiastically got in line to have his cap and gown photo taken with Aubie the tiger. Exact quote was “What the *uck. Is this a college or Disneyland?” :rofl:

It may not feel like it now, but a year is an eternity in a teenager’s life. There will be so much growth and learning over the course of senior year. It sounds like your D is on the right track. As a parent, there can be a fine line between helping and enabling. .. and I am not saying you are enabling. Just that sometimes we have to let go and see how they can manage on their own even if that means they are going to struggle because that will lead to them figuring it out for themselves. :heart:

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