<p>Are there certain schools that are more "friendly" for high IQ studnets with ADHD? My son is a senior, ready to submit his Common App.</p>
<p>I would focus more on finding schools that offer what your son wants to study and then zero in on what student services are offered. After having gone through the process a year ago I can tell you that schools really vary as to what they offer in the way of support services. </p>
<p>To get a really useful answer, you probably need to be a little more specific about what has helped your son in the past. Then you can ask whether schools provide that service. Unfortunately, they often mouth platitudes before the kid is accepted. I found that you will get the honest response after he has been accepted but before he has chosen a school. You can then ask, “Can you commit to do X?” Sometimes they will say, “After he accepts, we will have a committee review his testing and can then decide.” In our case, we had to say, “That is too late. He can’t come if he doesn’t know he has adequate support available.” We then were able to get a response. </p>
<p>In my kids’ cases, the nature of the school also mattered a lot. One kid went to a school with no distribution requirements (highly valuable for him to enable course choices that worked for him) as well as a highly supportive Disabilities Services Office. The other kid switched from studying a more academic subject to a more practical one and was motivated because she had to learn it in case she encountered a situation in which she needed it and people’s lives could be on the line if she got it wrong. That made a huge difference. She went from being in the top 25% of her HS class (private and quite selective) to being inducted into her school’s Phi Beta Kappa equivalent – only 20 kids inducted out of 475 or so in senior class.</p>
<p>I’ve had the same question. I’ve been narrowing it down. My son will be a music major so I’m trying to focus on programs that won’t require too many classes outside of his major.</p>
<p>Same here Cellomom6</p>