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[quote=Anonymous]To OP - I'm the dad with the GMU UVA ADHD kids.

First of all, while it's on the top of my head because of the post above, do look at the fifth year programs offered by a lot of boarding schools.  Initially, these started as a way for foreign students to study here for a year and take advantage of the private boarding schools' college placement systems.  We looked into Hotchkiss for one of our children but ended up deciding against it.

Another good boarding school for ADHD kids is Cardigan in NH.  https://www.cardigan.org/.

And if you don't want to do a fifth year, then a gap year for maturation might be helpful.  Only you can tell what is right for your child.

Another option we almost did for the male was military boarding school.  At the end we didn't do it but we toured Fork Union Military School three times.  Fork Union has the one subject system that forces the student to - duh - focus only on say - algebra - for six weeks.  Then on to the next subject.  I know of a number of ADHD boys that this has worked well for.  Fork Union has a fifth-year plan.  At the time we toured that seemed to be largely athletes trying to get their grades up to enter big-time universities to play football.  But call and ask.  Fork Union has a lot of built-in structure, which is good for ADHD.

ADHD DS went to the McLean School then public in VA on an IEP for ADHD/Anxiety/Aspergers.  He was accepted to the comp sci program at GMU.  He had some difficulties at first working things out with the Disability Services office.  We had to have him sign a FERPA waiver so we could help.  GMU wanted new testing because his was e years old (another $4K but better to known its coming). The office had then (this is six years ago) so much turnover that DH never seemed to get any traction, although he did get time and a half, etc.

In sharp contrast, the UVA Disability Services office was extremely well run and DD had to use it only a few times.  But DD's diagnosis was only ADHD and Anxiety.  The GMU program may have changed dramatically since our kid's time there.  We also paid an additional $6K a term for an autism program that just didn't work and wasn't well run.

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