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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In early October, my son's counselor had me email her copies of all of his evaluations, and a signed request for accommodations to forward to the college board.  Since then I have asked several times whether we had heard back, and each time she said "not yet" or "sometimes we don't hear for a long time".  I have grown increasingly concerned, as the advice that I've received from everyone is to apply early (e.g. October for Spring testing) because it's frequently necessary to need to appeal a decision.

Since Monday is the deadline to register for AP tests, I called the College Board today to ask why we hadn't heard.  They told me that the paperwork was received on Feb. 19, the last possible day to receive the paperwork before the testing, so we would likely not know until days before the testing.  This was more than 4 months after I provided the paperwork to the counselor.

I then asked which accommodations were listed, and it turned out that she forgot one.  A major one given my kid's specific issues.

We have four choices at this point.  One is to proceed with the application as it is, which means that my son will not receive his full accommodations for AP or SAT.

The second is to ask for a change.  This means that he won't receive ANY accommodations for AP (we would likely not have him take the test without them), but could receive full accommodations for the SAT.

The third is to have him take the AP with the limited accommodations he'll probably receive, and then ask for accommodations for the Oct. test date, which means that he won't have any SAT scores to guide his college search, and that he won't have a chance to retake the test if he does poorly.

The fourth option would be for us to switch to the ACT.

Am I overreacting, or is this a big deal?   Obviously, I should have tripled checked that they actually sent the paperwork off, and demanded a copy of everything they sent, so I'm mad at myself as well.

I'm trying to decide how to handle this.  Any suggestions?[/quote]

That is absolutely ridiculous.  When we did the accomodations thing, I dropped of the form and documents at the school on a Friday, it was in the mail that afternoon and we had a letter from the College Board two week later- granting what we asked.  I do remember the form I had to fill out included the the accomodations we were requesting, so it was on us to ask for the specific accommodations.  Our school does not have the guidance counselor do it.  THer is a specific person in the LD wing of Special Ed that has that task for all students.

I would send an email to the counselor's supervisor documenting all of this.[/quote]

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