Good Morning,
Looking for some help. My daughter was recently notified that she was not accepted for admissions into OSU. Long story short she had a very late diagnosis of Dyslexia at the end of her Jr. year in high school. She disclosed this diagnosis and learning disability in her application and even wrote her essay about the challenges she faced in high school and her learning disability. Her GPA was 3.67, her ACT was 27, all without any 504 plans or special assistance. Does anyone know where we go from here? I dont feel like OSU admissions took into account her disability and how it impacted her high school academics.
Are you in-state for OSU? It looks like Ohio residents will get an OSU regional school if they don’t get into main campus. It looks like only OOS students get outright denials.
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OOS, she just got an outright denial
If you really want to push it then you can call the admissions office to see if there is an appeal process. There may not be one for OOS applicants. I hope she has some good in-state options. OSU is a good school but not really worth getting very upset about not being admitted.
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This is interesting. My son has dyslexia with similar stats and wrote about it in his essay, thinking that it could be viewed as a strength and a reflection of his work ethic. He was just accepted to Penn State but a branch campus to start (which really is fine … smaller classes with more prof interaction will be better for him). But applicants with similar stats and major were accepted to the main campus. I don’t like this. Worth noting that I’m a prof at another university and heavily involved with our disability office. Just feels wrong.
My daughter has had a diagnosis of dyslexia and dysgraphia since 2nd grade. My exploration of how this could impact college admission basically led me to believe that the diagnosis itself played little to no factor in admission decisions. More specifically, I interpreted that many (maybe even most) Universities would not make exceptions or give special consideration to those with the diagnosis. For reference, my daughter also did not have an IEP or 504. She too wrote her essay about her experiences with the diagnosis and how she was able to turn her greatest weaknesses into strengths.