“”You hear ‘students with disabilities’ and it’s not kids in wheelchairs,” one professor told Horowitch. “It’s just not. It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.” Talented students get to college, start struggling, and run for a diagnosis to avoid bad grades. Ironically, the very schools that cognitively challenged students are most likely to attend—community colleges—have far lower rates of disabled students, with only three to four percent of such students getting accommodations.
To be fair, some of the students receiving these accommodations do need them. But the current language of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows students to get expansive accommodations with little more than a doctor’s note.”
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled