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I had neither healthcare coverage in high school nor expensive college consultants. When I got to college (Cornell) all my friends told me they had plenty of extra time on the standardized exam (the SAT) by virtue of doctors letters declaring conditions requiring accommodations. I'm sure some of these were legitimate. But practically everyone I spoke to supposedly had ADHD and resulting accommodations on the SAT. I'm not a MPH or Epidemiologist, but does 80% or 90% of the student population truly have a condition requiring accommodations?

Once 10 or 20% of students are doing this, it isnt unexpected for everyone to start doing it just to get on an even playing field. As usual, the poor students lose out because they cannot afford the doctors or expediters who can facilitate all these things.

>>Turing+(OP)
You've made a much larger claim (80-90%) than the article. That is interesting. And anedata, unless you have solid evidence of your opinion.

>>Turing+(OP)
It seems a bit ridiculous. How long before people claim "low IQ" or "bad memory" as a condition?

>>Turing+(OP)
Wait until you find out how many students are using performance enhancing drugs to help them study!

>>IAmBro+V3
>> You've made a much larger claim (80-90%) than the article. That is interesting. And anedata, unless you have solid evidence of your opinion.

Firstly No evidence provided and none needed as an unscientific anecdata supporting my personal shock.

- Many of these accomodations for SATs are done in high school and then it isnt required anymore, so naturally people dont ask once they have already gotten into college. The SAT used to be a singular choke point for top schools, and becomes irrelevant immediately after.

- I was speaking about SAT and the article was talking about accomodations needed for college housing and other things

1. I provided an anecdote based on friends' personal statements, not statistics based on school, you should trust the school's stats, but i'd really like to see the stats from The College Board on SAT scores, with a WHERE clause on only scores/accomodations for students going to top schools

2. I provided an anecdote that may well be wildly inaccurate being n=1

3. I entered to college in 1996, we're 29yrs off from my experience and the article

4. As I said above, accomodations in college != accomodations for SAT