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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by only-one1701 »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #263
only-one1701 wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This whole comment thread has been a crazy way to find out the ways people justify immoral behavior to themselves.

This kind of minor fraud is completely normalized within middle and upper classes. It's half the way many kids end up at these schools in the first place, thinking of the "pay-to-play" scandal at USC a while back.

So it’s funny, I grew up upper middle class with an extremely severe morality taught to me re: this kind of thing — integrity, etc. My entire adult life has been a lesson in how that’s a maladaptive trait in America in 2025.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by echelon »

seizethecheese wrote: post #252
lostmsu wrote: post #85

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I suppose cheating to get housing benefits is less of a dumpster fuck vs cheating to get ahead of other people in education.

I suppose so, but nonetheless it still likely harms the rest of the students who are honest by raising the price of housing for all students.

The diploma or credentials should be marked with the conditions of admission. That would prevent abuse from those who don't or shouldn't qualify for special admission conditions.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by seizethecheese »

There was a kid in my high school physics class who went to Stanford. One time, someone broke the curve on the midterm test, making it hard for most students to get an A. The future Stanford student’s mom visited the teacher to beg for extra credit assignments. He got his A.

I suspect Stanford selects for students who are smart, yes, but most exceptional at gaming the system. Perhaps this is a natural consequence of watering down the difficulty of classes and standardized tests.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by vasilipupkin »

this is a flat out lie and a case of bad journalism

it's not 38% - it's 1 in 4 or 25%, according to Stanford's own website https://oae.stanford.edu/students/dispelling-myths-about-oae

and that number includes students getting literally any kind of accommodation whatsoever. Allergies, food allergies, carpet replacement, etc, etc

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by almosthere »

missinglugnut wrote: post #46
almosthere wrote: post #29

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If it turns out half of all people have something, it's just normal human stuff. Today's ADHD is likely a symptom of tiktoking your brain's serotonin out or some other chemical

Nonsense. This is Stanford. The admissions process filtered for highly academically successful students and then 38% of them claimed a disability which impairs their academic performance. It's bullshit of the most obvious kind.

Touche, I'm just going to go ahead and upvote you.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by lotsofpulp »

SoftTalker wrote: post #71
binary132 wrote: post #65

I have a sneaking suspicion that a surprising number of these disabilities require treatment with performance-enhancing drugs.

At the gym I go to, there are a lot of college-age kids. I overhear them talking about getting on Ritalin or Adderall to help them study. Not because they really need it, it's just seen as a "performance hack" to get an advantage. They talk about what doctor they went to and how easy it was to get a prescription.

That has been a thing since I went to college 20 years ago.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by mvdtnz »

I watch a lot of bodycam DUI arrests on Youtube (I'm not proud of it - it's a guilty pleasure) and something I have noticed is that close to 100% of young female suspects claim to have ADHD, anxiety, depression or all 3. This generation has been trained to use these three pathologies to excuse poor behaviours. So it wouldn't be a surprise to see them using it to excuse poor academics, even preemptively.

Re: Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Post by almosthere »

rovr138 wrote: post #64
missinglugnut wrote: post #46

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Nonsense. This is Stanford. The admissions process filtered for highly academically successful students and then 38% of them claimed a disability which impairs their academic performance. It's bullshit of the most obvious kind.

Example, do you think someone that's hard of hearing can't meet the standard for a 'highly academically successful student"? Or someone that's color blind? Or someone that's blind? Or someone in a wheelchair?

Yes 38% of students at stanford are either blind or in a wheelchair
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