The Rochester Institute of Technology (StudentsReview)

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	F	Faculty Accessibility	F
Useful Schoolwork	F	Excess Competition	F
Academic Success	F	Creativity/ Innovation	F
Individual Value	F	University Resource Use	F
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	C	Friendliness	F
Campus Maintenance	C	Social Life	B
Surrounding City	B	Extra Curriculars	B
Safety	C

Describes the student body as: Afraid, Approachable, Broken Spirit Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

Female

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

Highest Rating Social Life	B

She cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.

Date: Sep 21 2012
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
What do you do when the school Disability Officer says to you that if "I gave your daughter accommodations for ADHD then I would have to do this for 5,000 other students.

What do you do when you ask the DO for a 504 plan for your college student and she says colleges don't have 504 plans?

What do you do when the DO instead of offering real solutions for your student sends a list of links for tutoring and other such unrelated to ADHD accommodations?

What do you do when the DO will not talk to you because the student is over 18 but the student has given permission to the school to talk to you?

What do you do when you think the school is taking care of your students accommodations and then you find out at the end of the quarter that she has failed a couple of courses, gotten kicked out her major and she has lost all her scholarships??

What do you do when you find out that her professors did not even know she had ADHD much less accomodations being in place?

What do you when you find out that that your student failed one of those classes because the professor acknoledged receiving her final submissions but two days later in the same email string tells your student

no I don't have them but now it's too late to turn in so your fail the course

? If accomodations were there this would not have happened.

What do you do when the school a very popular school in Rochester, NY ignores all your pleas for help, all the way from the President on down?

What do you do when a school that teaches future teachers in the disability field has emotionally crippled your student, has taken away all that she has accomplished thus far and makes her feel worthless and unaccomplished?????

What do you when your college student cries while she is apologizing to you for being such a failure of a daughter and won't come home because she is too ashamed????

Why won't anyone listen and help, I have knocked on so many emails and everyone is sorry but nobody can help????

Responses

College isn't for everyone. suck it up.

What do you do when you realize that in real jobs, they don't give accomadations for people with ADHD? What do you do when you realize that in real jobs, who ever works the most efficiently gets the job?

If your ADHD is not in control that you can function, you need to go to a school where you can commute so your meds can be monitored. Apparently your daughter wasn't mature enough to handle living away from school and making sure her ADHD was in control—the administration surely wasn't going to babysit her. Hopefully you were smart enough to realize that and brought her home.

I'm sorry

Reality is a law called ADA and anyone with a disability is allowed accommodations. You don't ask a person in a wheel chair to climb the stairs. But if you prefer to support disabled people through the system instead of helping them become productive adults than pay up. It is attitudes like this that make up the personality of RIT. All I have to say that we all can wake up tomorrow with a disability because you are right life happens…

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