Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating "big slap in the face"
6 years ago

Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating "big slap in the face"

Salon  

For Savannah Treviño-Casias, this week’s news about the college admissions cheating scandal was galling, considering how much red tape the Arizona State University senior went through to get disability accommodations when she took the SAT. Some of the parents charged, the FBI said, paid to have their children diagnosed with bogus learning disabilities so they could get special accommodations on the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. Schools and testing companies will make it even more burdensome for disabled students to get the accommodations that allow them to realize their civil right to access higher education.” Federal law requires colleges and college testing companies to provide accommodations for students with documented disabilities, including learning disabilities. “You’re playing with kids’ lives here.” The College Board, which also administers Advanced Placement tests, has said that requests for accommodations have increased in recent years as more students opt to take the exams, but didn’t respond to questions about specifics from KHN.

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U.S. college admissions scandal means more skepticism of genuine invisible disabilities
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U.S. college admissions scandal means more skepticism of genuine invisible disabilities

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For Aspiring Doctors With Disabilities, Many Medical Schools Come Up Short

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