This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics.
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) December 2, 2025
- At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled
- At Amherst: more than 30 percent
- At Stanford: nearly 40 percent
Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving… pic.twitter.com/GEmr8Tw8Az
Link to the article is here https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-university-student-accommodation/684946/
"Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans enjoy the same opportunities as everyone else. No one should be kept from taking a class, for example, because they are physically unable to enter the building where it's taught. Over the past decade and a half, however, the share of students at selective universities who qualify for accommodationsoften, extra time on testshas grown at a breathtaking pace. At the University of Chicago, the number has more than tripled over the past eight years; at UC Berkeley, it has nearly quintupled over the past 15 years."
