<p>I am beginning to think I should start staying away from these kinds of topics; they only cause frustration to me.</p>
<p>I get accommodations for both tests, and they are very necessary. I have an LD that actually can't be firmly diagnosed. It really is a collection of symptoms of other LDs combined. (More specifically, 1/3 Asperger's, 1/3 ADHD, 1/3 other) I get 50% extra time on the test because I have processing issues with some information. This can easily be seen by the fact that I can never remember directions by the names of streets, and I always go by "Make a right at the pink house" etc. I also have a visual tracking issue that occurs when I have to transfer information from one paper to another. Because of this, I am allowed to answer the questions in my test book. (Just to illustrate the necessity of this, I took the same standardized test (Not the SAT or ACT) twice in the same week. The test I took filling in the bubbles put me in the bottom 20%, while the test I took without bubbles put me in the top 10%)</p>
<p>The frustrating part about applying to colleges is that they want a firm diagnosis, saying in the report I have something and "here is its name." The fact is that it doesn't have a name. I have even flown multiple times to the University of Chicago just for the purposes of testing because their experts wanted to take me in. Also, I don't have an IEP because I go to a private school. This only makes things more difficult.</p>