Strange, brilliant square peg applying for COLLEGE!!!!

<p>Silverseas–</p>

<p>I have a brilliant dyslexic, dysgraphic, who is doing marvelously well in college, nearly a 4.0…But, she chose the path of least resistance and did not go to the most rigorous…read: stressful/competitive peer culture…school she could find, but chose the place she felt best fit her own particular needs.</p>

<p>There is a sometimes poster Shawbridge, whose son is a brilliant dyslexic who is at one of the very top LAC’s in the country, and who really researched this thoroughly, and I would highly recommend PMing him. He’s an expert on this stuff, imho.</p>

<p>ETA: There are a couple of books I would recommend to you, one in particular is “The MInd’s Eye”…which explains dyslexia well to those of us who do not have it.</p>

<p>Also, there has been a lot of research recently which concludes that something happens in the brain development of dyslexics around the age of 20 which explains the brilliance of previously mediocre dyslexic students like Einstein and Churchill, etc…Which might indicate that a gap year is very beneficial in cases like these.</p>

<p>YMMV</p>