<p>If you have diabetes or something comparable to that (a lifetime disease, not like the flu) does that hurt your application. If you have something should just not say anything?</p>
<p>I highly doubt that’s seen as a negative in your application. It definitely isn’t a possitive, for obvious reason, but schools are expected not to discriminate and a disease effecting your applicationw would definitely be descrimination. I would include it only if they asked, or if you wanted to use it in the essay. That could be a really inspiring story, something like your fight through [insert disease here]. Anyway, I really don’t think it’ll effect an application.</p>
<p>What happens after acceptance? There are some diseases which won’t seriously disrupt high school. There are some diseases which will. Diseases can vary in severity. [Don’t reveal your condition online.]</p>
<p>If you had a disease which requires frequent visits to a hospital and special medical care, such as hemophilia, I don’t think that hiding it from the admissions committee would make sense. The admissions committee is not your enemy. They want to admit students who can benefit from the boaring experience. There is a certain level of medical care which makes it difficult to keep up with your classmates. It is heartbreaking when a child must leave a school for medical reasons.</p>
<p>Your parents should be investigating the supports in place for students with your illness. If you might need at times to get to a hospital within 10 minutes, then the schools further than 10 minutes by ambulance from a hospital shouldn’t be on your list. If your condition won’t show up until you’re 40, such as Huntington’s Disease, I don’t think it would influence your chance for acceptance, but I also don’t think there’s necessarily a need for the school to know.</p>
<p>For the best match between child and school, ideally, I’d suggest openness, because then your parents can make contact with other families who’ve managed similar conditions at school. You should discuss this with your parents and doctors. Your doctors may know schools which do very well with students with condition X, and they may be able to expand the list of things you should look for in a school.</p>
<p>It should not hurt your application at all; that would be discrimination. You should mention it in your app because the school will need to know eventually, so you can get all the necessary accommodations.</p>
<p>I have a son at Exeter and have a daughter with Type1 diabetes who will be applying in the future. At parent’s weekend, I asked the Nurse practioner at the Helath Center some questions about how it would be handled, she assure me that there are many kids there with diabetes and it really was no big deal to them. They also host the JDRF walk every year. So I think if it is relevant to your application- in an essay etc. then I would feel comfortable including it.</p>