But can they all legitimately and supportively help with your direct issue - hence you need to speak with their LD offices PRIOR to ever submitting an app. You need a very curated list. There are ‘lesser name’ schools that focus in LD areas and are staffed with the proper resources vs others who likely aren’t.
If you attend the wrong school it will be disastrous for you. A big name in this case doesn’t matter.
Best of luck.
So is my list…bad…in terms of possibly getting accommodations?
I wasn’t trying to ever make my list not accommodating at all, but like- now I have another reason to go,
“Well now my list is full of no chances, and now they won’t accommodate me.”
Maybe I shouldn’t go to college…just maybe… (not being sarcastic…)
I might set up a meeting with my GC to ask her where she thinks I should apply now that will let me get a similar # of accommodations that I currently have.
Welp. Shall see.
I’ve sent in like half of my applications now…um…plus they know if they choose to read my personal essay (I disclose my disability on there BUT not as an excuse as like poor grades or anything)
They are “Disability Offices”…not LD offices.
You can and should ask for guidance. But while your school counselor might have an idea, it’s the colleges themselves that make the determinations regarding accommodations in college.
I don’t think an admissions counselor reading about your disability if they even read the essay at all.
You need specific 1:1 discussions.
You still have time with schools on your list and new schools.
U Delaware has some good info online about the differences between a HS IEP and college 504 plan, so we will use this as an illustrative example.
As others have said, you have to talk with disability services at each school on your list to see what they offer and most importantly, what documentation they will need from you. For example, based on your disability and the accommodations you want (you don’t have to share that here), you may need a neuropsych eval before you would be allowed to receive accommodations.
Here’s UD’s main DSS page, it is very important that you understand what will be required of you in college and just as importantly, what professors are required (or not) to provide you:
Here’s their documentation requirement page:
And here are example accommodations:
True, true. But I think it is better than not asking at all…
On Zoom? / Over email?
If i did it on zoom, they would see my horrible self-advocacy skills and how they lack 
But yeah- I do not know how I could contact them in the best way possible…tips?
Yes. I read that this moment. I’m okay with self-identifying w/my disability, I already do that, and the idea of having a 504 is so big on self-advocacy and actually I may literally freak out over it, but I’ve been trying my hardest to work on it with my therapist and school social worker.
I might have to convince my therapist to tell my school social worker to get my parents to spend three THOUSAND dollars (or more/less w/ or w/o insurance) but yeah!!! (who knows)
This process is A LOT more intense then I thought it would be…jeez.
But UDel seems very knowledgeable on this process (potential application?!) but yeah thank you for all of this info @Mwfan1921 I really really appreciate it all!!
They will let you know how.
You have a disability you want accommodation with. There is nothing to hide. You need them to know. Perhaps your parent can assist.
If they offer a zoom, it would be better.
You need them to see your needs. And you need to learn from them required next steps.
You have zero to hide.
I hope, I have no idea why but I’m extremely worried to talk to them anyway. I did it one time with an NYU disability specialist because I’m in the STEP program and originally had to apply for my accommodations and just doing that made me really uncomfortable but I got an accommodation out of it (extra assignment time/test time)
The only thing I’d hide is my timidness 
or, at least, hope to hide-
You’re in hs. Forgetting your personality, you need to have a frank discussion. Involve your folks.
At this point you might show up at school and struggle immensely bcuz you didn’t do the work up front.
You know your task. March toward it or roll the dice as you are.
Good luck.
Is there something…wrong…with my personality? (I took that as an insult, um-)
I’m just scared, that’s all.
but if it involves me just emailing Disability Offices then I have no problem. I might just start off by sending out the appropriate emails on Monday 12/2.
Of course not - personality is the wrong word - you were concerned they’d see you, your timidness. That’s what I was referencing.
The point is you are about to embark on a four year journey.
You need all cards on the table. All the back and forth will help both sides understand what’s needed.
You don’t want to end up at a place that cannot possibly meet your needs.
Talk to them. It’ll be ok. You’re a teen. They get it. Have them take you through the process and let a parent participate or at least listen in.
You’ve got this. Good luck.
Ohh, okay. sorry for misreading too much. (it happens quite a bit)
Yup! That is worst case scenario. On Monday I’m probably going to ask my case manager to sit down with me so we can construct an email to send to colleges asking what I could possibly get/what I need for my disability?
This sounds like a great plan, actually, and thank you for the reassurance, too.
Try to talk. It’s quicker and clearer. Talk = zoom or phone.
Then follow up with the plan as discussed in email to confirm.
Otherwise if you do it all via email it’ll be slow and lot will likely be missed.
And please reconsider the close by schools. If they’re best for you and Marist is known to be one of the best, don’t eschew just because of pettiness. You need best for you, based on you, not based on what your fellow students say.
Good luck.
What if I ask over email to discuss over Zoom?
Thanks, will keep you (and this thread) updated!
That’s fine.
Some, like unc, have a form to fill out.
Yeah, but I’d have to fill that out if I attended UNC specifically…no?
Please talk with the disability offices…not just email. Remember, these are disability offices and they are tasked with helping students like you who have disabilities.
You need to feel comfortable interacting in person with them…because you might just need to do so while you are in college.
Perhaps your support staff at your high school can do some practice mock interviews so that you will be more comfortable. Ask.
Hopefully… 
I have no clue why I’m freaked out, it’s probably just a sleu of things coming to hit me like reality.
See but that isn’t so bad, knowing that I would. The smidge might is why I wouldn’t.