Perfect ACT Score

[Anonymous]

OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

This is a tough one. I don't think OP is a troll. I think OP believes what she is saying. I believe her DS got a 36. I just think that the score was accomplished by gaming the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

I’m holding out hope that there isn’t actually someone so clueless and callous out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. To be honest, I am not worried about DS and his future. He has these accommodations, but would he do fine without them? Yes. Instead of a 36, he might get a 34 or maybe even a 35. That's the beauty of having high intelligence along with a disability.


How is there "beauty" in getting accommodations for a kid who doesn't need them, despite being "entitled" to them?

My child has ADHD. He took the ACT one time (no prep, no accommodations, one practice test), and got a 34. Really, most people would be happy with that. If he wanted another point or two (he doesn't), I would suggest that he prep for it and take it again rather than trying to get him 6 or 7 hours to take the test. That would drive him crazy to spend that much time testing. Like most kids, he would likely do better with an extra 5 or 10 minutes per section to check his answers, but that's not how the test is designed.

I'm not OP. I'm not sure the fact that your kid didn't want to put more time and effort into preparing for the ACT & didn't want to bother taking it again is something to be bragging about. What "beauty" do you find in that? Fine that he's happy with a 34 (which is a good score) but there's nothing wrong with people taking advantage of what's available to them to do better, as long as they're not cheating (I'm assuming OP's child got the accommodations legitimately). Athletic recruits get into schools they wouldn't normally get into based on academics. Is there something wrong with that? Students of certain race get into schools they might not. Is there something wrong with indicating your race on the application? Legacies are given an edge. Is it wrong to indicate that you're a legacy? In fact, compared to all of these advantages I listed, I would think accommodations on SAT/ACT is more warranted/legitimate/fair than any of them. If your child is happy with a 34, then be happy. It's a great score. I'm not sure why you're so sour about someone else's accommodations.

This is an interesting perspective and something I had not considered. It is true that there are various advantages that people have in the admissions process. The fact that being a legacy, athlete, or URM are considered honorable while a kid with ADHD or another disability is "gaming the system" paints a sad picture of many of the posters here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Well the results are finally in. DS got a 36. We are pretty thrilled.

Right. Total bullshit unless you post a dated photo of the test score sheet.

OP posted a screenshot. There are a lot of composite screen shots of score 36 available online. Look, I'll post one now:

https://imgur.com/7AXx0cW

I agree a test score sheet would be more convincing, but whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

+1000

I'm the pp who said "sad person". i really have to stop reading DCUM. It's making me bitter. I just read the "amusement park" entry and thought "Why did I bother reading that? That's 10 seconds of my life I can't get back". I have an SN kid who desperately needed extra time, plus an IEP and the services they got through ODS at College. He graduates this year from a VA university this spring that regularly is the butt of jokes by the ignorant here on DCUM. But he will GRADUATE from college. He may not be able to hold down a regular job (that remains to be seen), but he will graduate notwithstanding autism and ADHD. It was a struggle but will be so worth it for DC's ego. It hurts to see others misusing the system and bragging about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

+1000

I'm the pp who said "sad person". i really have to stop reading DCUM. It's making me bitter. I just read the "amusement park" entry and thought "Why did I bother reading that? That's 10 seconds of my life I can't get back". I have an SN kid who desperately needed extra time, plus an IEP and the services they got through ODS at College. He graduates this year from a VA university this spring that regularly is the butt of jokes by the ignorant here on DCUM. But he will GRADUATE from college. He may not be able to hold down a regular job (that remains to be seen), but he will graduate notwithstanding autism and ADHD. It was a struggle but will be so worth it for DC's ego. It hurts to see others misusing the system and bragging about it.

But disabilities are on a spectrum. It sounds like your DC is on one end of it and the OP's is on the other. It doesn't make the OP getting her kid accommodations wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

+1000

I'm the pp who said "sad person". i really have to stop reading DCUM. It's making me bitter. I just read the "amusement park" entry and thought "Why did I bother reading that? That's 10 seconds of my life I can't get back". I have an SN kid who desperately needed extra time, plus an IEP and the services they got through ODS at College. He graduates this year from a VA university this spring that regularly is the butt of jokes by the ignorant here on DCUM. But he will GRADUATE from college. He may not be able to hold down a regular job (that remains to be seen), but he will graduate notwithstanding autism and ADHD. It was a struggle but will be so worth it for DC's ego. It hurts to see others misusing the system and bragging about it.

But disabilities are on a spectrum. It sounds like your DC is on one end of it and the OP's is on the other. It doesn't make the OP getting her kid accommodations wrong.

Therein lies the issue.
If a kid with “disabilities” is actually more able than the general population, is there actually a disability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is clearly a troll, and look at the long and complex thread he/she has accomplished. Well done.

or a very sad person.

+1000

I'm the pp who said "sad person". i really have to stop reading DCUM. It's making me bitter. I just read the "amusement park" entry and thought "Why did I bother reading that? That's 10 seconds of my life I can't get back". I have an SN kid who desperately needed extra time, plus an IEP and the services they got through ODS at College. He graduates this year from a VA university this spring that regularly is the butt of jokes by the ignorant here on DCUM. But he will GRADUATE from college. He may not be able to hold down a regular job (that remains to be seen), but he will graduate notwithstanding autism and ADHD. It was a struggle but will be so worth it for DC's ego. It hurts to see others misusing the system and bragging about it.

But disabilities are on a spectrum. It sounds like your DC is on one end of it and the OP's is on the other. It doesn't make the OP getting her kid accommodations wrong.

Therein lies the issue.
If a kid with “disabilities” is actually more able than the general population, is there actually a disability? [/quote]


Yep. It doesn't sound like OP's kid has a disability if he has a 36 ACT. I've never understood why a federally protected class under the ADA and IDEA is not one of the many classes of favored students for college admissions. Why is a first generation student favored just because their parents didn't graduate from college when a physically disabled or struggling SN child is not?