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Ivy League college students are reportedly exploiting sketchy “disability” statuses to partake in lavish perks.
“You hear ‘students with disabilities’ and it’s not kids in wheelchairs,” one university professor anonymously told The Atlantic. “It’s just not. It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.”
The trouble started in 2008, when Congress amended the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by widely expanding what constitutes a disability.
In response, the Association of Higher Education and Disability “released guidance urging universities to give greater weight to students’ own accounts of how their disability affected them, rather than relying solely on a medical diagnosis.”
Schools quickly fell in line, and not shockingly, disability self-“diagnoses” skyrocketed, as did the accommodations for so-called “disabled” students.
OMG. Ivy League students are abusing the “disability” status to get special benefits like bringing their mom to class. More than 20% of undergraduate students at Brown & Harvard, and 38% at Stanford, claim to have a “disability.”
This status allows students:
-Exemptions from… pic.twitter.com/ZdI0p7plof— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2025
“The types of accommodations vary widely. Some are uncontroversial, such as universities outfitting buildings with ramps and providing course materials in braille,” according to The Atlantic.
“Other accommodations risk putting the needs of one student over the experience of their peers. One administrator told me that a student at a public college in California had permission to bring their mother to class. … Professors told me that the most common—and most contentious—accommodation is the granting of extra time on exams.”
But an extensive review of the data strongly suggests this isn’t organic, and that the system is being abused.
The Atlantic notes, for instance, that middle and high school students with actual disabilities are “half as likely to enroll in a four-year institution as students without disabilities and twice as likely to attend a two-year or community college.”
Yet disabilities are being reported in higher numbers at four-year Ivy League schools versus community colleges. According to Robert Weis, a psychology professor at Denison University, data shows that only three to four percent of students at community colleges apply for and receive disability accommodations.
Moreover, according to Weis’ research, disabled students at community colleges “tend to have histories of academic problems beginning in childhood,” whereas with their Ivy League counterparts, half of so-called “disabled” students “have no record of a diagnosis or disability classification prior to beginning college.”
“Studies have found that a significant share of students exaggerate symptoms or don’t put in enough effort to get valid results on diagnostic tests,” The Atlantic notes.
“When Weis and his colleagues looked at how students receiving accommodations for learning disabilities at a selective liberal-arts school performed on reading, math, and IQ tests, most had above-average cognitive abilities and no evidence of impairment,” the reporting continues.
38% of Stanford undergrads are now classified as “disabled” (i.e. their parents worked the system to get them extra time on tests and Adderall prescriptions). Other elite schools are similar.
I can confirm this, based on my own kids’ experiences at elite colleges in recent years pic.twitter.com/EHsvu2EVBb
— ₿ΞΞnThereDoneThat Capital 賢い (@BeenThereCap) December 2, 2025
But it gets worse.
A New York parent who works in special education told The Atlantic that it’s now commonplace for parents of high-performing HONOR STUDENTS to get their kids diagnosed as “disabled” just so they can have access to these extra accommodations.
“It feels in some ways like a badge of honor,” the parent said. “People are all talking about getting their children evaluated now.”
Disabled students who spoke with The Atlantic similarly spoke of non-disabled friends taking advantage of these accommodations.
“Hailey Strickler, a senior at the University of Richmond, was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia when she was 7 years old,” The Atlantic notes. “She was embarrassed about her disabilities and wary of getting accommodations, until her sophomore year of college.”
Yet one of her friends, who didn’t even have a disability, had already received accommodations of their own by then.
“They were like, ‘If I’m doing that, you should definitely have the disability accommodations,’” Strickler said.
“We know that people will act as they are incentivized to act,” Brian Scholl, a Yale psychology and cognitive-science professor, said. “And the students are absolutely incentivized to have as much extra accommodations as they can under any circumstances.”
Indeed, and that’s a big, big problem …
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