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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Note that the UC prof said that s/he cannot take care of paying attention to an individual student's needs him/herself. This is a really big deal. If your child is not very self-motivated, it is incredibly easy to fall through the cracks.

If your child has accommodations and would do better in small environment where professors reach out to students receiving accommodations and will keep on top of them to complete their work, then you probably should focus on smaller environments. Also, TAs generally teach undergrads at large research universities. TAs are teaching to get free grad school with a small stipend; they aren't hired because of their teaching ability (and at some schools and some majors there can be a language barrier, too).

I know someone who recently had a bad experience at Renssalaer with accommodations. Also note that Troy doesn't have much to do outside of the college and RPI is very frat-heavy. I know others who have had difficulty with all their needs being met at UMD.

Schools that aren't on your list who do great jobs with students needing disability services include Montgomery College (2-year only) and Goucher College. Both schools have professors that make sure students get their work done, and work with students and their families to make sure every accommodation that needs to be made gets made.[/quote]

Montgomery and Goucher are not good fits academically.  DC is interested in math and physics and is currently taking a post BC Calc math class.  He was the RPI medalist for his school so it comes with a scholarship.  How long ago what the RPI experience and how well do you know the student?  DC is an introvert so unlikely to care about anything off campus. [/quote]

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