[blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?

[Haben Girma]

Is there a fact sheet out there that reveals what percentage of a 
university's student body is disabled?

Haben

James Pepper wrote:
> 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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