American College Students Claim Disabilities in Increasing Numbers

Another scandal is ripping through higher education. The Atlantic magazine reports that Stanford University has an extraordinarily vulnerable student body, with 38 percent registering with the school as having some form of disability. At Amherst, the number is 34 percent.

That’s almost double the rate of the rather fragile student bodies at Harvard and Brown (20 percent disabled), and nearly five times that at MIT (8 percent). And it’s important to note that not all students who report a disability formally register with their campus, so the number with a disability (such as ADHD) may be higher than what schools report.

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Another scandal is ripping through higher education. The Atlantic magazine reports that Stanford University has an extraordinarily vulnerable student body, with 38 percent registering with the school as having some form of disability. At Amherst, the number is 34 percent.

That’s almost double the rate of the rather fragile student bodies at Harvard and Brown (20 percent disabled), and nearly five times that at MIT (8 percent). And it’s important to note that not all students who report a disability formally register with their campus, so the number with a disability (such as ADHD) may be higher than what schools report.