This is going to be a deep dive now that he’s accepted. He researched all the academic supports available at each school but did not want to out himself as a kid with an LD before he was accepted (he’s worked hard these past few years to learn how to structure his work to be successful and only needs a few accommodations on longer tests due to visual dyspraxia). His next step will be to call the departments that handle accommodations to see how they respond to his evaluation. They all are known to have good support, but the difference is if they feel the accommodations are “reasonable” and how they deal with teachers that don’t follow accommodations. I’ve been combing FB groups and do see some stories that are concerning but also lots of praise. Now that DS has learned to advocate for himself, I’m not as worried as I would have been when he was entering high school. I assume there will always be “that one professor” that will make life miserable, but thankfully, I think he has to tools to get through that.
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