I got a 10/12 and a 12/12 on the SAT essay portion (the very brief time they had it at least when I was in HS 06-08) but colleges didn't take that into consideration whatsoever. I had a diagnosed math learning disability but I guess Neuro diversity didn't matter in the ancient PC age.  I scored very low in the "moderate" range, I wouldn't say it was a rock bottom score, of the math portion, I scored high on the lower-end of reading portion. I didn't get accepted into a state college even. Definitely got snubbed by my small pretentious first choice. I only got accepted at some small rural college just to keep my options open but the folks I met on tour didn't sell me whatsoever like they knew it was the last choice but only accepting school. I didn't want to be at the top of the reject pile from other schools (at best). So I just attended community college for the remedial math and it actually DID help me solidify basic to medium highschool level algebra, I even scored high As in those classes, I never ever thought I'd EVER score a 96-100% on a math exam PERIOD let alone the dreaded algebra (geometry was ok, I managed to get Bs and Cs, there was this write off "vocational maths" class they offered in lieu of pre-cal for seniors but the teacher was just so inexperienced, ignorant of the taught subject and convoluted scoring method that technically FAILED MOST OF THE CLASS but I don't recall how it was resolved but I think it involved everyone getting at least a C grade, or one grade above what they got, on their official transcript due to mass parental and student outrage since it was a private school charging 15k a year for DAY students and 28k for boarders in freakin 2008... It was also an exclusively female student body, so of course there'll already be a lower proportion of effortlessly strong math students.<br><br>I feel like I was always written off as slow or incapable, even in my academic strengths that surpassed many AG students, bc of my math LD. I was prohibited from being in both a remedial and AG class simultaneously but that could be from scheduling limitations, to be fair. I was in "regular" reading class bc I think the social studies and sciences only had the non-AG and AG categories in middle school. My private highschool was default honors classes so.... Anyways. Every IQ test I've taken that doesn't use academic math, I score around 120-135 but if it involves solving math problems, forget it, I'm lucky to score average. I FULLY APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITY AND EXISTENCE IF MATH lol but I feel like a lot of exclusively math LDer, not general LDs but even they can posses above average IQs but I think it's less common if you lack expressive and receptive written language skills, are almost discriminated against based on disability bc they aren't taught in a way that would allow them to learn and retain the skill. I'm not expecting lower standards, just accomodations like small group classes, with a TA to help individual students. I pulled chemistry from a PITY D first semester to a solid B by the second from 6-8 hrs of private tutoring with a bio grad, which is organic chemistry pretty much, student (they can teach basic chemistry obviously) who was AMAZING at it. She also helped get me into addiction treatment after graduation, long story there... I was lucky enough to have parents who could afford all this personalized assistance. If I grew up in poverty, yeah forget it, I could have easily been a highschool dropout.<br><br>My mom is a general practice MD (who spent countless late nights vigilantly proof reading and helping me strengthen my academic and "argumentative" writing skills, and maybe taking over some very micro bits to put that flair on it when I was fried and over her perfectionism lol, but have her to thank for my expressive  and receptive language abilities as she also read to me nightly as a child, my dad is a state funded human services provider founder/CEO who was a mechanical engineering major and worked in the field for a decade before that. Inarguably my privileged background explains my success against the odds without the charity of others to help me along the public school track. I did go public before highschool.,(reply>), Tell your mom to help you with brevity.