<p>Simfish and kirmum, thanks for sharing your experience. I think we will not disclose. kirmum, I think you expressed it well when you said that privates don't have any incentive to work with an LD child. We recently visited Williams for an open house and I spoke with an Admissions Director there. I figured it would be anonymous enough because the crowd was huge and my D was in a sample class and not with me. I asked the Director if they would factor in her ADD when looking at her test scores (because her other stats are good) and she unequivocably stated NO. She suggested that my D take the SATs again and hopefully raise her scores, and even suggested that she get accomodations to have more time, as apparently the colleges have no indication if a student has had accomodations. THis will probably not work for my D, as she has never had accomodations, and would probably get rejected since she has been performing well otherwise academically, if not socially). </p>
<p>More importantly I learned from that encounter the negative attitude of the Director. I got the impression that even though they are required not to discriminate, they would have doubts about my D succeeding in college. Like simfish said, they have doubts about such a student being able to deal with the academic pressures, and living away from home, new situation, etc. THere is really no incentive for them to accept such a student when there are so many qualified applicants.</p>
<p>Simfish, I am glad you were able to get accepted to an early entrance program, and I think you are right to perhaps not disclose for future research and grad school applications.</p>