Student Sues Princeton Over Learning Disability Accommodations

shawbridge
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:56:05 +0000

MomPhD, like you, we got the best answers after admission (the Disabilities Office was more likely to invest time in schools that admit 1 in 10 applicants after admission). But, we did get answers that we’ll have to send the testing information out to our psychologists to have them look at it, we won’t do that until you choose, we won’t guarantee anything. Among the accommodations we discussed were extended time (up to double time), note-taker, reader, scribe, and language requirement waiver. We did not push for commitments on all of these (my son has not asked for a scribe or a reader, though he could use the latter) but I don’t think all schools would invest the resources even post-acceptance to give a good prediction. We got a good sense in part from how they talked about the options (“we’ve never done that before although we will look at it” or “that would be highly unusual”).