SAT Accommodations without prior 504
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Would appreciate info from anyone who has recently gone through SAT/ACT accommodations request. DS has neuropsych results that support request and psychologist is strongly recommending, but does not have 504 or IEP at school. Psychologist says request can be made directly to College Board but I thought kids had already be receiving accommodations school to be granted their request. I think it may be too late to request - DS is already a junior. CB website does say that you don't have to go through your school, and does not say that student needs to have 504. But can this really be done?
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Anonymous
| I know a kid that received accommodations in 9th grade without a 504 or IEP. The two kids that I know that requested junior year were denied. |
Anonymous
| PP again: forgot to ask— do you have a clear diagnosis? The of the denied kids was diagnosed with general anxiety, not sure about the other kid. The parents told me that the school didn’t support the diagnosis because the kid did well in school. |
Anonymous
| You'll need to explain why you need extra time for the SATs but not for tests at school. You're request will be regarded with skepticism. |
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| OP here. Thanks for the input. Dx is ADHD, Inattentive Type. Major processing delay and exec function impairment. As to why he doesn't need accommodations at school - he does. But we missed it all these years. Parenting failure. |
Anonymous
Have you thought about applying TO? There are so many colleges where it’s truly not needed. |
Anonymous
| It doesn’t hurt to try. The worst they can say is no. |
Anonymous
Not a failure. Especially if he is your oldest. We’re all learning as we go. |
Anonymous
| My understanding when my DD went through thus was that the child needed to have had at least two years of accommodations in order to apply for extra time on the SAT -and even the she was turned down (and she had an IEP for two years!) So she went with the ACT which had given her extra time. But this was several years ago so perhaps times have changed |
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| If you apply by yourself, junior year, chances are CB will deny. Take your diagnosis to the school counselor, and have them apply for your child - chances are it'll get approved. CB frowns upon late diagnosis just in time for accomodations |
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My kid is at a private school so doesn’t have an IEP or 504, so I know you don’t need those for the SAT. But he does have accommodations documented with the school, so maybe that did the same thing.
Good luck, OP. Even with accommodations my dyslexic kid bombed the PSAT and I expect didn’t do well on SAT (awaiting results). Oh well. He’ll go test optional and not worry about it. Plenty of good schools are TO! |
Anonymous
Are you talking to the school about a 504? |
Anonymous
| What grade is he in? Our DD was diagnosed with ADHD after the pandemic. She really struggled with online learning and asked to be tested. We were surprised when she was diagnosed with ADHD. She is at a Big 3 and the doctor told us to consider switching schools. The school turned down our request for accomodation because her grades were "okay". (A-,B+). Technically those grades are good but it did not reflect her potential. You need to get accomodations from the school to qualify for SATs junior year. I gave up and was going to let it slide but my friend pushed me to fight for DD. She said we had to get the accomodations at least one year before the SATs. Thank God for my friend. DD took the ACTs and it's much harder to get extra time,even with accomodation. I had to write multiple times and challenge their decision. It was a months long process. She took the ACTs twice. The first time without accomodation. The second time we got the accomodation the day before the second test! ADHD manifests itself later for girls and is often missed or misdiagnosed. Her problem was that she thinks too fast and skips information. She makes ups words to fill the spots she misses! We had to get her to slow down, take breaks and refocus. So long story short, you need at least a one year history of accomodations before you can get extra time for SAT/ACT. It doesn't have to be a 504 but the school needs a record of it. It's much easier to get accomodations if you start in MS. I was told that extra time matters more for ACT. |
Anonymous
Pursue a 504 or IEP now. Will help for college accommodations. Apply for college board accommodations. Why aren’t you pursuing all of this.? |
Anonymous
We are - especially for the reason you give about helping for college accommodations. Want to have that ball rolling long before he needs that support at college. But feels like pushback at school in our initial interactions - implication is that he's a strong student and hasn't needed help thus far so why would he need additional support so late in the game. We know we will get there with them but can already sense there will be foot dragging and little enthusiasm to put things in place. So we won't get the support for a CB request for some time if at all, and DS needs to take the test sometime this school year. That's the reason I was asking about anyone's experience pursuing the request directly with CB. |