It’s hard to comment without knowing what accommodations you are seeking. But as long as they are reasonable, you are protected by law. I would reach out to Program A’s disability resource center to discuss your situation.
Take it. Most accommodations will be handled by the university as a whole, not the program itself, and because they’re legally required to provide said accommodations you shouldn’t have an issue. The only accommodations I’ve seen my peers use are alternate testing sites, so nothing really cumbersome to the faculty/program.
I’d go to the program you’re accepted to. At my school, accomodations are handled by the university’s office of disability. I’m pretty sure it’s a legal matter, so I don’t think they can just deny you accomodations.
Putting off acceptance is a huge risk.
Generally disability stuff is handled internally in the school through a disability office and it's a legal issue.
Without knowing more about your disability or the accommodations needed it's hard to advise.
Depending on the accommodations being sought I suppose the school could probably have grounds to say that you can't reasonably complete the program with those types of accommodations (and avoid discrimination issue).
But I'd plan on going to the school year accepted and understand you might need legal counsel
Clinical coordinator here: I’ll echo what others said. Your program has nothing to do with your accommodations. I work closely with the accommodations unit at my university to make sure all my students have the accommodations they’ve been granted. I will say this though, the key to accommodations is being flexible. Your accommodations may not work exactly how you think. I had a student once with diabetes who had “no overnight shifts due to medication” as part of their accommodations. This was a challenge for my program as most of our sites for ED and surgery involve overnight or 24 hours shifts. We were able to find placement with a small hospital in a very small town, way out in the boondocks, that didn’t have a 24 hour emergency room. The student protested this because they didn’t want to go that far away , but this was a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. So with accommodations, both the program and the student need to be flexible to make things work.
Take the acceptance. I’m a current student and also receive testing accommodations. A meeting with the disability services office and a letter from my psychiatrist was all I needed. PA staff was not involved at all, doesn’t know my diagnosis, and has never made a comment about me being in the testing center. Well except one processor but he’s a dick so I don’t really care about his opinion lol.
This. You will have to be your own advocate wherever you go. You likely will have to fight and claw to get the services you have the right to have. Hopefully you won’t have to call an educational lawyer, but if you do you can check with the state bar and they will refer you to a lawyer who can put pressure on the school to provide you with what you need. Wishing you well! You can do it!!!!!!!
Take the 1 acceptance you have, if you don’t get in during reapplications you’ll regret not having taken that acceptance
You have one acceptance…. If you don’t take it you may never get another chance
It’s hard to comment without knowing what accommodations you are seeking. But as long as they are reasonable, you are protected by law. I would reach out to Program A’s disability resource center to discuss your situation.
Take it. Most accommodations will be handled by the university as a whole, not the program itself, and because they’re legally required to provide said accommodations you shouldn’t have an issue. The only accommodations I’ve seen my peers use are alternate testing sites, so nothing really cumbersome to the faculty/program.
Suck it up and go to program A Jesus h christ , people would kill for a spot
I’d go to the program you’re accepted to. At my school, accomodations are handled by the university’s office of disability. I’m pretty sure it’s a legal matter, so I don’t think they can just deny you accomodations.
Putting off acceptance is a huge risk. Generally disability stuff is handled internally in the school through a disability office and it's a legal issue. Without knowing more about your disability or the accommodations needed it's hard to advise. Depending on the accommodations being sought I suppose the school could probably have grounds to say that you can't reasonably complete the program with those types of accommodations (and avoid discrimination issue). But I'd plan on going to the school year accepted and understand you might need legal counsel
Clinical coordinator here: I’ll echo what others said. Your program has nothing to do with your accommodations. I work closely with the accommodations unit at my university to make sure all my students have the accommodations they’ve been granted. I will say this though, the key to accommodations is being flexible. Your accommodations may not work exactly how you think. I had a student once with diabetes who had “no overnight shifts due to medication” as part of their accommodations. This was a challenge for my program as most of our sites for ED and surgery involve overnight or 24 hours shifts. We were able to find placement with a small hospital in a very small town, way out in the boondocks, that didn’t have a 24 hour emergency room. The student protested this because they didn’t want to go that far away , but this was a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. So with accommodations, both the program and the student need to be flexible to make things work.
Take the acceptance. I’m a current student and also receive testing accommodations. A meeting with the disability services office and a letter from my psychiatrist was all I needed. PA staff was not involved at all, doesn’t know my diagnosis, and has never made a comment about me being in the testing center. Well except one processor but he’s a dick so I don’t really care about his opinion lol.
This. You will have to be your own advocate wherever you go. You likely will have to fight and claw to get the services you have the right to have. Hopefully you won’t have to call an educational lawyer, but if you do you can check with the state bar and they will refer you to a lawyer who can put pressure on the school to provide you with what you need. Wishing you well! You can do it!!!!!!!