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[quote=Anonymous]From direct experience in advising pre-med college students with extensive accommodations, they burn out and cannot handle the pace of classes well enough to keep the necessary 3.7+ at places like UVA, William and Mary, Emory, WashU, Vanderbilt to name a the more common and or recent ones. Our group has never had one with extensive accommodations who got in to an ivy-level but surely they exist among the hooked admits.

I’m not talking about needed accommodations for specific processing/dyslexia combined with top-3% intelligence. Those students tend to do well because they learned how to manage before middle school. I mean the double time or unlimited time for anxiety and/or adhd typically an accommodation added in middle or high school. Many on paper have an SAT that is above 1450/33 and seemingly they should be able to handle those schools. A 1450/33 with double or unlimited time as well as As in high school that came with multiple accommodations, bluntly, does not correlate with good grades. Keep in mind 3.7 is around average at all of those schools. 
I cannot speak to other career paths with less test-centered/curve dependent college grading [/quote]

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