<p>Don't believe them. I have been accepted to 6 colleges (rejected by two, waitlisted by one) and with some really good scholarships/grants. I am NOT a straight A student or an AP kid, I have a 3.5 and some good ECs. And an IEP about a half inch thick.</p>
<p>I disclosed in my essay that I have Asperger's, because really, it's not fair to me or to them if I don't, and then show up asking for all these services. (That's IF they even will give them to me.) Or if I go, and don't ask for services, but then get bad grades in my classes and waste my parents' money, or lose my scholarships. That's just stupid. Then you can just say you failed at doing the job right.</p>
<p>I think that if you tell them up front, and they don't take you, that's a message saying that you really don't belong there. Maybe they don't have the right services for you. Maybe they aren't really life-changing, or maybe they don't want to take on your "burden." You know, like extra work. Pardon me for living, as my Gram says. I don't want a school with a lazy or snotty attitude toward LDs. And I sure don't want my school to be afraid of educating me.</p>
<p>If you disclose, and they don't want you, it's their loss, not yours. Bag them, there are 2100 or so other colleges out there. But if they <em>want</em> you, then that's a keeper, a place that has no fear. They are interested in <em>educating</em> - imagine that - and isn't that what college is about? Do the research first and figure out who sounds LD Friendly, that is what we did.</p>
<p>Oh, and the waitlist was in that Colleges That Change Lives book. lol So much for practicing what you preach.</p>
<p>I'm doing the happy dance. I still don't know where I'm going, but at least they're all giving me enough money so that I don't have to toss any of them in the trash! That's going to make the decision <em>really</em> hard....</p>