To let colleges know?

kartwheelie
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:38:29 +0000

Hi - sorry it took me so long to respond to the person who asked, I had graduation, prom, stuff like that. And I start college in three days…yeah, I am giving up my summer…

Anyway the only college that *didn’t accept me was American. And that is just as well, from all the housing problems I have read about online. I don’t need to go there and be without a place to live in two years. I have a friend who is there now and she is afraid for next year!

There’s not a trick to it. It has nothing to do with SATs etc. When it comes to us, they KNOW we don’t always get good test scores. They want to see what we do in the classroom.

You can see the ones who did accept me on my 2015 post. I had a free ride at three colleges - two state, and one private. The other two privates I had down to $10K & $12K a year. Penn State gave me nothing but their acceptance letter. lol

My GPA was 3.59. Not going to post my test scores. They were a non-entity, because I did not apply to ANY private colleges using test scores. The states that accepted me (including Penn State, which is state-affiliated) didn’t seem to care about them.

The states seem to have more going for them for kids with LDs and stuff than the privates. My college has its own Asperger’s counselor. What the privates have going for them is the smaller classes.

Why would you even look at a college that wouldn’t accept someone for the sake of resources? That probably means they aren’t good enough resources to begin with. It’s not the same as high school. You don’t fight for the accommodations. If your son has a good evaluation he should be fine getting services. Did he get an evaluation done this year, or is he going to? If not you have to have the school get one done!