But if she’s got other things she’s rather write about that may be better. I think it can sometimes be hard for a student to talk about their challenges without sounding a little whiny. She could also mention it briefly in the “is there anything else you want to tell us” part of the application. Or, what I did, was in my parent brag letter to the GC, I reminded her that my son had had a 504 plan in middle school, but had chosen not to use any of the accommodations in high school. Some of his less than stellar grades were due to running out of time, and some short term memory deficits. That way the counselor was able to say something like “Mathson managed to graduate in the top 5% of his class despite having documented LDs which were not accommodated.”