Stay away from "disability schools"

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Warning! To those of you who are applying to college, stay away from traditional disability schools like Landmark, Curry, and Mitchell especially if your GPA and SATs are high enough to get in somewhere else. Look for a program for Aspergers that is integrated into a more prestigious university. I don't think prestige is necessarily important but academic atmosphere is very important. Schools with large disability populations have to be lenient in their admissions standards so as a result they attract a low caliber student body and have low academic standards, bad campus life, immature kids. If you have a low GPA And SAT scores, your better off going to Community College that have residential programs for Aspergers or go to community college near where your parents live.

Here are some student reviews from traditional disability schools:

http://www.epinions.com/review/educ-Col ... 453B-prod1
http://www.studentsreview.com/MA/Curry_College.html
http://www.studentsreview.com/CT/MC_com ... l=Mitchell College
http://www.studentsreview.com/VT/LC_com ... e=negative

A facebook group for Curry College
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7434317802

I don't need a Disability School. My handicaps come naturally.

I want to go to University of the Incarnate Word but wonder if it would be best to go to a sechular school where I can have my own opinion.

So, basically, we're supposed to stay away from other disabled people because we might get disability cooties on us or something? Well, screw that. I've made more friends with other disabled people than I've ever made with NTs, and I've learned more, and done more, and been able to excel academically at my "disability school" a great deal more than I would if I were pretending to be NT at some disability-unfriendly place somewhere.

You know what's more important than prestige? Actually having an environment in which you can learn. And I don't want to be stuck with a bunch of other Aspies in some autism-specific program; I've had enough of that insular "autistic-only" environment to last me a lifetime. Autistic people are cool, sure, but disabled people of all sorts need to stick together.

PunkyKat, good religious schools do not dictate what you believe; faith has to be voluntary if it's to be real--I think you can probably find someplace that lets students have more freedom without being completely secular.

At least two of your links filter everything out but the negative reviews. That isn't a very fair representation. I don't think there is a problem with disability schools on the whole but a school individually.

Callista
A girl with PDD-NOS and the social maturity of a twelve year old was raped at Landmark College by someone with ADHD. I have ADHD as well but I do not like to identify with it because a lot of kids and their parents use it as an excuse for bad behavior. Is this the kind of academic environment you want Aspies in?

Unless you are pursuing a career in academia, college is primarily for getting a decent job. More important than student life is the type and frequency of job placement of a schools graduates. A disability school may or may not be any better than a regular university. In New York State, at least, the entire SUNY system has disabilities services. I would think that most public universities have such things in order to be in compliance with the ADA.

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