1 in 5 Harvard Grads Claim to be ‘Disabled’

Front Page Magazine ^ | 12/03/2025 | Daniel Greenfield

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Earlier this week, in ‘Easy A’s for Ivy League Idiots’ I wrote about the massive level of grade inflation in the Ivy League.

In 2005, a quarter of Harvard students received A’s. In 2025, it’s over 60%. At Yale, A’s went from 67% of grades in 2010 to 78% of grades in 2023. The prestigious university has had awkward moments like before, such as when 91% of students graduated with honors in 2001, and these days it tries to keep the number of honors graduates in the 50s. But much like shopping in a supermarket, it’s hard to avoid the inevitable recognition of inflation when looking at the 3.8 GPA that’s the floor for most Harvard seniors.

At Yale, the average GPA is 3.7 and a cutoff was implemented to keep the number of honors graduates at 30%. Anything else would make Yale seem as ridiculous as Harvard.

Grade inflation is one part of the scam, but another is defining disability down to such an extent that everyone is disabled.

Not quite everyone. Just 1 in 5 at Harvard.

At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent. Not all of those students receive accommodations, but researchers told me that most do. The schools that enroll the most academically successful students, in other words, also have the largest share of students with a disability that could prevent them from succeeding academically.

A “disability” that magically lowers their standards.

The increase is driven by more young people getting diagnosed with conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and by universities making the process of getting accommodations easier.

When a disability is defined as being ‘sad’ or ‘anxious’, well then everyone is disabled.

One recent Stanford graduate told me that when she got mononucleosis as a freshman, she turned to the disability office: Because she couldn’t exercise, she was struggling to focus in class. Though she’d always been fidgety, she’d never had academic issues in high school—but high school had been easier than Stanford. The office suggested that she might have ADHD, and encouraged her to seek a diagnosis. A psychiatrist and her pediatrician diagnosed her with ADHD and dyslexia, and Stanford granted her extra time on tests, among other accommodations.

Paul Graham Fisher, a Stanford professor who served as co-chair of the university’s disability task force, told me, “I have had conversations with people in the Stanford administration. They’ve talked about at what point can we say no? What if it hits 50 or 60 percent? At what point do you just say ‘We can’t do this’?” This year, 38 percent of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability.

Disability has become the emotional support animal of accommodation. It’s a scam that has gotten out of control and is further devaluing what’s left of the credibility of a college degree.

Already, at one law school, 45 percent of students receive academic accommodations.

What are they going to do when they have to get actual jobs? Oh that’s easy, they’ll demand ‘mental health days’.

Woke up feeling exhausted, irritable, and overwhelmed? Not ill, exactly, but not quite well, either?

A cough, fever, or nausea are clear signs you should think about taking a sick day. But it’s not always as obvious when your psychological load is pointing toward a similar remedy — a mental health day.

Shrugging off all responsibilities, even for just 24 hours, can help you return to work and life with a fresher perspective and leave you feeling calmer, more capable, and perhaps even more productive, says clinical psychologist Natalie Dattilo, an instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.

The only thing they’ve really been trained to do is to pull a Tonya Harding and whine. And since the system rewards this behavior, why not make your imaginary disability into your identity.

Will Lindstrom, the director of the Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders at the University of Georgia, told me that the fastest-growing group of students who come to him seems to be those who have done their own research and believe that a disability is the source of their academic or emotional challenges. “It’s almost like it’s part of their identity,” Lindstrom said. “By the time we see them, they’re convinced they have a neurodevelopmental disorder.”

Lindstrom worries that the system encourages students to see themselves as less capable than they actually are. By attributing all of their difficulties to a disability, they are pathologizing normal challenges. “When it comes to a disorder like ADHD, we all have those symptoms sometimes,” Lindstrom told me. “But most of us aren’t impaired by them.”

Much like transgenderism, playing the victim can be profitable. So why not do it? 20% of Harvard does. Those are our leaders of tomorrow.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: danielgreenfield; education; fraud; greenfield; harvard; scam; sultanknish

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"1 in 5 Harvard Grads Claim to be ‘Disabled’"

[dfwgator]

Maybe it's the brownies...

[cnsmom]

A DEI Major degree with a LGBTQ gender Studies Minor isn’t an education.

[ridesthemiles]

OUTRAGEOUS-—AND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DISPROVE,

[MortMan]

From “Johnny Dangerously” - “I am disabled - I’m deranged!”

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

100% are mentally retarded. Sad.

[minnesota_bound]

1 in 5 Harvard Grads Claim to be ‘Disabled’

They claim they are Yale men...