There was just an article in the NYT about accommodations, I don’t know how to share without not linking my account. The percentages they gave of disabilities registered in 2024 at certain colleges:

38% Hampshire
37% Pace
36% Scripps, Ursinus
29% Macalester
21% Chicago, Cornell, Harvard

One of the commenters of the article said at the NYC private school they work at, >50% of students have some sort of accommodations.

College is going to lose all sense of meaning if graduates can’t handle time pressure. I say this as someone who was diagnosed worth ADHD in adulthood, I absolutely have time pressure at my job even though I don’t work in a high pressure field.

The standardized test results should include a note indicating whether accommodations were provided.

Nobody gave them work and they got the talk to leave the firm.

Let’s stop pretending that school resembles, in any way, most workplaces. Like a pp said, a job doesn’t have 7 different bosses with different deadlines to juggle. A person doesn’t usually take a job where a requirement is a significant weakness for them (like a person with dyscalculia required to take math classes & needing extra time…& is unlikely to choose a career doing math all day long). Even group projects are a farce as coordinating after school times to meet in no way reflects a job where you’re at the same location from 9-5, 5 days per week.

If you can’t use critical thinking skills to reason out how kids with *needed* accommodations survive in the real world, then ask for a refund from whatever shoddy university you graduated from. Clearly, they failed you.

And, for the record, an ADHD diagnosis can prevent someone from becoming a pilot.

Anonymous wrote:Per my college senior, AI is upending everything anyway. Chat GPT come out their freshman year and changed everything. And Claude is doing so even more in the last few months. It can basically be given access to their Canvas/Blackboard/etc and do the work for them.

The challenge for ADHD kids is remembring that they had an assignment to tell Claude to do. Just like you can set your phone timer, but it doesn't help if you can't find your phone.

Agree that the OP seems uninformed and not that bright.

School is mostly a one size fits all situation but the working world is not that way. People with learning disabilities find careers that match their strengths and interests.

Anonymous wrote:Also, what do you mean by “ALL” the accommodations. My son has autism. He gets extra time to take exams. He’s brilliant, but he’s a very slow writer. I don’t think his future career studying fossils and rocks will be impeded all that much by the fact that it takes him a long time to write.

+1 School in many ways is such an artificial environment that is not at all like the working world. People can choose to pursue jobs that are a better fit for what they are good at. Someone who hates to write is probably not taking a writing-heavy job. Success in school = being able to be good at ALL the things, and do them quickly. Success at work = being good at a more narrow set of things + good social skills.

Per my college senior, AI is upending everything anyway. Chat GPT come out their freshman year and changed everything. And Claude is doing so even more in the last few months. It can basically be given access to their Canvas/Blackboard/etc and do the work for them.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this is such an uninformed question. It’s like asking how anyone who is not thin, tall, lithe, and graceful can possibly succeed in life when they clearly won’t be successful as a ballet dancer. Perhaps if we just starved teens who aren’t thin enough, or made them have height stretching surgery?

There are people who are really good at thinking fast and reacting quickly, and those people may pursue careers that use those skills. Other people will choose careers that fit the skills that they have. Maybe some people will choose wrong initially and have to pivot. That’s how life goes.

This can actually be some people with ADHD. They need the adrenaline rush to focus. So if they can get through med school, they're more likely to end up working in the ER.

That is so true that it was literally a line in The Pitt.

Anonymous wrote:Like all people, they ultimately choose careers that are actually suited to their stengths, and are not diminished by their needs. Also, because of the accommodations, they were not held back in advancing their learning and education due to basic skills that take much longer to develop in ADHD brains, some of which eventually do develop, as do life long stragetgies to cope that did miraculously show up at age 10 or 15, but by 25 can be much improved through a decade of repetition and practice and hard work.

^^ did *not*

Like all people, they ultimately choose careers that are actually suited to their stengths, and are not diminished by their needs. Also, because of the accommodations, they were not held back in advancing their learning and education due to basic skills that take much longer to develop in ADHD brains, some of which eventually do develop, as do life long stragetgies to cope that did miraculously show up at age 10 or 15, but by 25 can be much improved through a decade of repetition and practice and hard work.

My college student needs her accommodations. Most people who truly need support understand their strengths and weaknesses and pursue careers accordingly. Cheaters gonna cheat but the world is also full of successful people who experience the world differently and play to their strengths. My kid won’t be performing brain surgery or flying an airplane but she’ll be happy and successful in her chosen career.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this is such an uninformed question. It’s like asking how anyone who is not thin, tall, lithe, and graceful can possibly succeed in life when they clearly won’t be successful as a ballet dancer. Perhaps if we just starved teens who aren’t thin enough, or made them have height stretching surgery?

There are people who are really good at thinking fast and reacting quickly, and those people may pursue careers that use those skills. Other people will choose careers that fit the skills that they have. Maybe some people will choose wrong initially and have to pivot. That’s how life goes.

This can actually be some people with ADHD. They need the adrenaline rush to focus. So if they can get through med school, they're more likely to end up working in the ER.

Anonymous wrote:What concerns me more are the ones who really needed them but are never told they really are not suited to be pilots or air traffic controllers or other things where fast processing is necessary for safety of others.

This is a completely hysterical and unfounded fear.

Also, what do you mean by “ALL” the accommodations. My son has autism. He gets extra time to take exams. He’s brilliant, but he’s a very slow writer. I don’t think his future career studying fossils and rocks will be impeded all that much by the fact that it takes him a long time to write.