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If you become a lawyer, are you going to request that your clients give you accommodations as well?

If you had actually read my post, I will not be receiving accommodations for the LSAT, nor did I use them for more than a semester.

That being said, the real world provides far greater leniency to play with deadlines than an exam. Maybe someone stays late, maybe someone plans their schedule so as to accommodate how long any given task may take them.

At the end of the day, what must be considered is the net harm. The percentage of individuals applying and getting approved for accommodations is minimal. Of those, sure a few probably do get through who really do not need them, thus unfairly taking a seat or two at any given school. But what about every student who needs them to perform, who can certainly become an extraordinary lawyer, but cannot perform on a standardized test do their brain not being, well, 'standard'.

For my entire life, I was always the 'smart' kid, I was moved up a grade, aced everything, etc, but in my sophomore year of high-school, I sustained a serious concussion. I missed six weeks of classes and returned slowly, but every day was this painful exercise in simply completing basic tasks. Re-reading math problems five times because my short term memory was all but destroyed, staring at a jumbled mix of words hoping to make some sense of it, misreading instructions, and so forth. It felt like my identity had been ripped away, and every minute of that year was difficult. Ultimately, I received accommodations for the remainder of the semester, which allowed me to preform to my fullest abilities. It was not a matter of me being less intelligent, it was simply that I needed additional time to prove my intelligence. Luckily my symptoms gradually lessened and by the fall I was able to complete my studies normally.

Those few months ingrained in me such empathy for individuals who struggle like that every day. I it was debilitating, and agonizing. As for the LSAT it all boils down to a proportionate balancing of salutary and deleterious effects. If for every ten students who need accommodations, one takes the exam and benefits disproportionately, it is not the end of the world. Your opinion is callous, lacking basic compassion, and fosters an environment when individuals with invisible struggles are cast away even further.

I think you need to grow up a little.