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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, our daughter is ASD, ADHD, anxiety disorder and, as a result, was a poor student. We hired endless tutors to get her through high school and college. We actually on occasion had to go sit with her to keep her on point for homework. Skme off the top of my head comments:

1) go to a local college so it’s easy for you to help. High Point would have been a good fit but was too far away.
2) I think your son needs a gap year.
3) engineering is one tough major. Does your son have a gift at math?. My other neurotypical child, but gifted, started in engineering at a top state school but quit after Calc 3.
4) if your DS is adamant about engineering, try to encourage him to attend a school with humanities, etc. so he can easily shift at a later date.  So no Georgia Tech.
5) look at schools that have great support offices. We chose GMU for this reason.
6) can your son write papers? This turned out to be the biggest hurdle for DD.  She had coasted on an IEP at Langley so we didn’t “get it” until her first papers came due at GMU. If so, avoid the SLACs or any program that on ones a lot of writing
7) hook up with the school’s disability services office early in the summer preceding attendance. GMU wanted fresh (it had been Four years) testing, which took time, but the office would t even talk to us until we had fresh testing.
8) [b]consider a single. DD got thrown into a quad with three student athletes who got up very early. Disability services sorted that out.[/b]
9) Did you look at WPI?

Best of luck. I’m sure I’ll think of more. You do have a therapist in place? Meds? Tutors? You want to make sure all of that is in order before the start.
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[b]What did disability services do for her? Did she get a single? How is she doing now? My own dd has the same diagnoses and is applying to GMU. I’m dreading the roommate situation because other students will find her very difficult to live with.[/quote][/b]

Yes, our DD botched the form in which she was supposed to indicate her preference to be with a good friend from high school - so she went into the pool and wound up in the triple.  We took the matter to GMU's disability services and they worked out the single for her - which was much needed because she needed quiet. But by that time, note that we had already done yet another neuropsych test during the summer and had already met with disability services about her needs.  You need to lay that groundwork over the summer.  best of luck[/quote]

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