College Accommodations for Students with Multiple Disabilities

College Accommodations for Students with Multiple Disabilities

Many thanks to our close colleague Annie Tulkin, CEO/Founder of Accessible College, for this illuminating post!   Students with disabilities don’t always fit neatly into a single box; many of them have multiple co-occurring conditions. Often the complexity of...
9 Tips for Homeschooling Students with Learning Differences

9 Tips for Homeschooling Students with Learning Differences

We are so grateful to our valued colleague and homeschooling expert Michele Evard, Ph.D. for this informative post! You can find Dr. Evard’s coauthored book, College UnMazed: Your Guide to Document and Design Your Homeschool, here.  For a neurodivergent young person,...
ACT vs. SAT for Students with Learning Differences:    4 Differences that Actually Matter

ACT vs. SAT for Students with Learning Differences: 4 Differences that Actually Matter

Thanks so much to our test prep partner, Jonah Fishel, for contributing this post! Top College Consultants is proud to offer top-quality test prep tutoring for students with learning differences through our partnership with Next Step Prep.  For most students, choosing...
A Shifting Landscape: What’s Changing in College Admissions for Students with Disabilities

A Shifting Landscape: What’s Changing in College Admissions for Students with Disabilities

“Move fast and break things.” It’s a common mantra in the world of tech, but in recent years things have been moving fast–and perhaps sometimes breaking–in the world of college admissions, too. For students with disabilities and the professionals who support them,...
How to Research a College

How to Research a College

Thanks to TCC team member Kristi Ramey for this post! Students sometimes apply to colleges thinking, “I’ll visit once I get in.” After all, it takes time and often money to travel to a school. But it’s also worth taking the time to be sure that each college you apply...