40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations
“The rise has nonetheless drawn national attention, with some critics arguing that students are abusing the system”
This is a growing trend. Some people think it’s a scam to get a longer time on assignments and exams.
Fortune reports:
40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate
The pandemic has shaken up college life for good: Since then, social media and AI have revolutionized classroom expectations, and the bar for landing a job after graduation has become impossibly high. Many are now questioning whether getting a degree was even worth it.
The ripple effect of those strains is already showing in campus accessibility offices, where diagnoses of ADHD, anxiety, and depression are rising—and so are requests for extended time on coursework.
At Harvard, 21% of undergraduates received disability accommodations last year, an increase of more than 15% over the past decade, according to data published by the National Center for Education Statistics analyzed by the Harvard Crimson. Top schools like Brown, Cornell, and Yale reported similar numbers, roughly in line with national trends. But the increase is more pronounced at other institutions: 34% of students at UMass Amherst and 38% at Stanford are registered as disabled, according to The Atlantic.
In the 2011-12 school year, the number of undergraduates with a disability was about 11%, based on U.S. Department of Education data—highlighting just how much of a dramatic shift this phenomenon has become.
Experts note that many students have medical conditions that merit accommodations, and the increase is in part linked to broader access to mental-health care and reduced stigma around seeking support.
The rise has nonetheless drawn national attention, with some critics arguing that students are abusing the system to secure lighter workloads or an edge in hypercompetitive classrooms.
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Reality will set in when the student is actually hired.
I remember an accountant professor telling me about a CPA candidate who was given extra time for undergraduate tests and the CPA test.
Imagine when the student’s first employer finds out how the student performs.
Assuming they can handle the stress of the application/interview process. We may have an entire generation of people who are functionally unemployable.
I’m willing to accept that 40% of today’s idiot kids have mental disability.
They’ve been coached into it by the government’s inept educational system.
They can’t read. They can’t write. They can’t do basic math. But they feel really good about themselves. Until they hear the name, “Trump.”
Then, they go psycho.
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