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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/05/28/new-scrutiny-patterns-which-wealthier-students-are-more-likely-get[/quote]

Thanks for this link, don't know if you are same or diff PP who said that it was like 30% disabled and 50% when you factor out international students, but that's not supported by this article. There's one quote from one particular Superintendent where he throws out the 30% number but that's clearly a loose and anecdotal stat. The most directly relevant part of this article is:

"The Journal found that at wealthy high schools (defined as those where no more than 10 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch) 4.2 percent of students are eligible for extra time on tests. In low-income areas (high schools where at least 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch), the figure is 1.6 percent."

So if we assume that disabilities where an appropriate accommodation is extra time on a test are fairly evenly distributed among the population regardless of family income, and that such students in low-income areas may be somewhat under-identified, then we might infer a "true" rate of about 2-3% (above the low-income 1.6%), and that there's 1-2% over-identification at wealthy high schools. Which is a problem, sure, and maybe this is even more magnified in very isolated instances amongst the uber-wealthy varsity-blues cohort (like the anecdotal superintendent quote)... but overall, ~96% of students even at wealthy high schools are NOT receiving the extra time accommodation.[/quote]

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