Almost 1 in 5 Brown U. Students Now Qualify for Disability Accommodations
“I’ve heard of some people swindling the system to kind of get what they want, but I’ve also heard of people who actually need them.”
This is ridiculous. Many students just try to get this for academic reasons.
The College Fix reports:
‘Easy as possible’: 1 in 5 Brown U. students receive disability accomodations
Brown University students can easily obtain an accommodation for a purported disability – and 18 percent have already done so, according to the campus newspaper.
Almost 1 in 5 students at the Ivy League university quality for accommodations in courses.
The Brown Daily Herald gathered the results through a spring 2026 poll, which included 1,275 students, or about 15 percent of the undergraduate population.
The student newspaper reported:
The percentage of students who reported having a disability rose more than 50% over the past decade across a number of schools, the New York Times reported. At certain schools, like Stanford, 38% of students reported having a disability, though not all students who reported having a disability receive accommodations.
The amount of students at Brown requesting accommodations through SAS “continues to grow,” Interim Director of Student Accessibility Services Allen Kropp wrote in an email to The Herald[.]
One reason might be that it is incredibly easy to get an accommodation.
“The process for obtaining accommodations is fairly straightforward,” Kropp told the student nespaper. “We work to make the process as easy as possible, and accommodation decisions are often made in a matter of days.”
Other students backed up this assertion.
“The process of getting accommodations was incredibly easy,” one student told the Daily Herald. “I had the doctor’s note already, and then I scheduled my appointment and they were incredibly helpful, quick and understanding.”
However, some questioned the process.
“A lot of my friends have them, so I just kind of thought more people would,” student Sophia Odato said. “I’ve heard of some people swindling the system to kind of get what they want, but I’ve also heard of people who actually need them.”
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When I was advising freshmen at Harvard, it was common knowledge that the advisers at elite preppie schools had been telling premed students to go to certain psychologists to get letters allowing them to have time and a half or double time on exams. That was considered a normal tactic to compete effectively with the other premeds once they got to Harvard.
Later in my career, I always gave my exams in the evening with no time limit. Some of the students who had been getting extra time on exams were really angry because they lost their advantage over the other students. When they said “I’m supposed to get extra time,” I would say “Take all the time you want, just like everybody else.”
“I’ve heard of some people swindling the system to kind of get what they want, but I’ve also heard of people who actually need them.”
Probably 50/50
and what were some of the most cited disabilities that the students spoke of:
1) when looked at wrongly I feel racistized
2) not being given an “A” grade for just showing up
3) not being allowed to not show up to class and still not be given that grade of “A”
4) loss of income from the taxpayers
5) the feelings that others think Im a DEI recipient
“Many students just try to get this for academic reasons.”
Academic reasons are just a corollary. It’s for social reasons — having disabilities bumps you up the intersectionality ladder. The academic accommodations then flow from that, as do a lot of other benefits.
It’s a DEI thing. Disability is way lower at White University.
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