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[quote=Anonymous]It might be hard to accept, but a lot of kids with accommodations are likely smarter and more creative thinkers and problem solvers than your snowflake that checked all the boxes, got all the As, played all the sports, was class president, and feels cheated that they did not get accepted to Stanford or its equivalent.

Maybe the schools want these kids because they have demonstrated they are exceptional in some way beyond grades and test scores and the accommodations helped them to navigate a lot of the normal hurdles in our educational system.

All the applicants have the grades and the test scores, to get into Stanford you need something more than that and they did not accommodate their way into that uniqueness.

I have a student with ADHD that will be going to an elite school (not Stanford) in the fall and the truth is her ADHD is her super power in many ways, but she also has real differences in her brain that make it harder to navigate the mundane to get through school and testing.

Her accommodations did not, however, earn her the LORs that made her stand out from other applicants or cause her to follow a very unique EC path that aligned with what she wants to study.

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