NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reports reveal this week that college students across the United States<\/a>, including up to 40% of students at Stanford University, are claiming to have a disability in order for special accommodations like more time on tests is prompting pushback from education experts.<\/p>\n Recent data reveals,\u00a0according to The Atlantic<\/u><\/a>, that at schools like Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are now registered as disabled. At Amherst, that number hits 34 percent. But professors warn that this isn’t a surge in physical impairments. Instead, it\u2019s a wave of students acquiring “dubious” diagnoses for disabilities like ADHD, anxiety, and dyslexia that come with coveted perks: extra time on exams and better campus housing.<\/p>\n “She, of course, didn\u2019t have a disability,” a Stanford University student\u00a0wrote in The Sunday Times<\/u><\/a> in an article suggesting that 40% of Stanford students claim to be “disabled.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as \u2018disabled\u2019”.<\/p>\n GOT A SCOOP ON CAMPUS? SEND US A TIP HERE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A young man sits at a classroom desk, covering his face with his hands as he appears stressed and overwhelmed during class<\/span> (Canart7\/iStock)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fox News Digital spoke to several education experts who said that the systems in place at American colleges<\/a> are being abused and students with real disabilities will be hurt the most.\u00a0<\/p>\n “College Students with real disabilities\u2014like mine\u2014 are being passed over for those who, as a result of insufficient high school preparation or otherwise, have sought to make things as easy as possible for themselves in the ordinarily rigorous college environment,” Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President and Legal Fellow at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n “The fact that we\u2019re seeing a surge in students presenting with \u2018disabilities\u2019 is evidence that the youngest generation is ill prepared for life in the real world.”<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1200\/675\/college-students-remedial-math-report-fox-news.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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