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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are tou going to college with him? How will he survive without you?[/quote]

Oh clever clever. So funny. [/quote]

DP. But I had the same thought — how the heck is he going to manage college if he can’t even check an email account for acceptance emails?[/quote]

I've had to help my son too. He has ADHD and some learning differences. It's not just checking emails. For each school, you are prompted to set up an account in their portal. Some of them require a two-step process, where you use the credentials they provide but then change the password. Some even have an additional step of entering a PIN that is provided in the email. If you multiply that times 10-12 schools, it can be overwhelming, especially if the kid is not accustomed to using email for communication. And then the schools continue to bombard the email account with additional emails about making a decision, all with different information (come do a tour, apply for the honors college, get your FAFSA submitted, etc.).

And then once you've committed, the kid is expected to go back and figure out how to decline the other acceptances, which typically requires you to log back into each school's portal and find the instructions for declining.

And once committed, the student then receives instructions for setting up a new account as an enrolled student, which opens up the floodgate of applying for housing and filling out the housing form, making your deposit, filling out the academic interest form, registering for an orientation. In our case, there is also a math placement test that is supposed to take 90 minutes (ugh). [/quote]

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