Just when you thought the debate couldn’t get any stickier, here’s another layer from Heidi Mitchell that will make you shake your head. Who’d have thought that meds and entrance to Harvard would be in the same sentence? {EF}
Steven decided to dupe his doctor when he returned from his elite boarding school exhausted by the intense competition there. He needed an edge to help him, he felt. So through written evaluations from teachers and his parents, and by deliberately failing tests, he succeeded in getting himself diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and was given both his in-school tests and his SATs untimed. Eventually Steven, which is not his real name, was accepted to a top college in upstate New York, although he no longer takes medication, nor does he consider himself ADHD. The ADHD diagnosis, and the benefits that came with it, he acknowledges, helped him beat the competition.
Welcome to the new way to get into America’s best colleges.
LINK: Faking ADHD Gets You Into Harvard
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