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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Senior dd has bad ADHD, inattentive, and she is medicated, also some depression.  She has bad executive functioning skills.  Despite it, She did well (B's) in high school due to a lot of micromanaging by me each semester when she forgot to do/turn in assignments and didn't study/know how to study for tests.  And she got a solid ACT score.

She got into many colleges (around rank 70-100), but her 2 favorites (which are also the highest ranked) are our 2 closest big state public schools (like 30,000 undergrads).

Can an ADHD kid like her be successful at the big state public college?  If so, how?  Any parents have a kid/situation like this?  The Living Learning communities look great and like a good support network.  What else?  Or would she be set up for failure?[/quote]

IMO, many ADHD kids would do better at a smaller university.  Smaller classes with professors that get to know your kid.  Much easier for the kid to reach out for help in a class with 40-50 students and at a school where the professors typically take the time to care about the students.  
My ADHD kid had a 3.5 HS gpa and had learned to be fairly organized by then and only required a few reminders from me in HS (thanks to tons of tutoring and coaching for executive functioning).  They struggled at college first year, but were able to get the help they needed by going to profs and the disability center.  IMO they would have been lost at a larger school (their school was ~8K undergrads). Even with their larger science courses (200) the professors actually cared and my kid sought out the extra help to "pass" but eventually realized needed a major switch (as in the science prof came in on Sunday after thanksgiving to tutor my kid at 7pm when their flight landed, despite the prof having 2 young kids at home and it's THANKSGIVING weekend---I don't see that happening at a large state U, I just don't). I just know my kid would have gotten lost at a school with 20K+ undergrads.  Freshman year was stressful and a huge adjustment for a kid that lacks ExFunctioning--because College assumes your kid has those skills.  And it seems you daughter needs more assistance than my kid did (nothing wrong with that, but you gotta meet your kid at where they are in life to help them succeed).

Note: my kid switched majors (out of premed/prehealth), graduated in 4 years (with 3 summer courses to make up for W'd/dropped courses), and has a great job and is functioning well as an adult 1.5 years out of college (living 2K miles from home, just like college was).  [/quote]

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