[blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?

James Pepper b75205 at gmail.com
Fri May 15 15:30:42 UTC 2009


They probably do that, I know that one of thee Coolge entrance exams does
it, but I am not sure if it is the SAT or the ACT but they inform the
schools eactly which devices were used to take the test.  I think it is both
of them.  This is how colleges can know who is disabled and who is not
without actually asking the student if they are disabled or not.  It is a
great way to get around the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
And this is good for colleges that do not have a high percentage of students
who are disabled because they will most certainly accept you once they
realize you are disabled, to satisfy their requirements to not be considered
discriminatory.  But your chances of graduating from that situation is not
as good as a college that accepts the disabled on a regular basis.  Of
course state schools are more likely to handle the disabled with respect,
since they are more in tune with the consequences of discriminiation.  But
if you are competing with a lot of other disabled students to get into a
college that is a good college for the blind, then you will probably be
judged on your abilities based on being disabled and not the general
population.  Because they will probably only admit a certain amount of
students who are disabled as the disabled tend to cost the university a lot
more than non disabled.

Since most people do not know they are doing this type of profiling, they
have gotten away with it since 1973.

You all are lawyers, can you stop this nonsense because colleges accept the
blind and disabled in proportion to their numbers in the population, but
they don't graduate them in any proportion to the numbers they accept.

James Pepper



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