<p>poppymom, I can’t really suggest specific schools as we looked only in the northeast, but ShawSon is distinctly unbalanced though in a different way. Although he willed himself to score extremely well on the SATs and ACTs (moving up from 48th percentile in middle schools exams to 99+ percentile on SAT and ACT), he is severely dyslexic, which at this point means that although he reads and writes well, both activities are quite fatiguing for him. We decided that he should attend a school that had either no distribution requirements or minimal distribution requirements so that he could avoid the typical humanities or political science classes with 400 pages of required reading a week. He’s been on an IEP since grade 2 and has been neuro-tested out the wazoo, so we had data to present to the top few schools that accepted him and we visited and asked the deans of disability services how they would handle 100% extra time, note-taking, etc. There were significant differences in how they were handling things and he turned down an Ivy to go to an LAC. They are treating him very well. But, one of the key things is that he can control, to a large extent, how much reading/writing he’ll need to do in a semester by taking math or art classes. Full curricular flexibility might turn out to be important for your daughter as well.</p>