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Posted on 06/21/2026 4:46:21 AM PDT by DFG
Roughly one in three students at one of the nation’s top law schools now carries a disability designation, a figure that stood at a fraction of that just five years ago.
About 378 students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have enrolled in the campus Disabled Students’ Program as of spring 2026, according to the program’s annual data. Across the full campus, the program served 4,153 students in 2020-2021 and 5,711 by 2024-2025. Psychological and emotional conditions lead all categories at 2,443 students, followed by ADD/ADHD at 1,666, while physical disabilities such as mobility, hearing and vision trail far behind.
A graduate of the law school says the totals point to abuse rather than genuine need. Andrew Testerman reviewed the figures and laid out his findings in an essay for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
“At Berkeley Law, there are more disabled law students than there are male law students,” Testerman wrote. He added that the public is asked to believe elite law students are far more likely to be disabled than the nation’s senior citizens, who claim disability status at about 24 percent. He put the share of Berkeley Law students receiving accommodations at 37.5 percent, against 3 percent of the university’s graduate students in 2021.
Staggering number of Berkeley Law students claim they’re disabled as ’emotional disorders’ skyrocket https://t.co/KrZ8fZSd2u pic.twitter.com/50hyWb8eJ7
— New York Post (@nypost) June 19, 2026
The clearest payoff is time. Students with the designation receive extended windows on exams, and proctoring requests climbed from 3,822 in 2021-2022 to 14,103 in 2024-2025, according to the Disabled Students’ Program.
Berkeley is not alone. At Stanford, 38 percent of students have registered with its accessibility office and 24 percent receive academic or housing help, according to The Atlantic. Harvard logged 21 percent of undergraduates last year, while Amherst reached 34 percent, the magazine found. The national rate sat near 11 percent in 2011.
The pattern tracks a longer trend in testing. Federal data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal showed disability designations more than tripled between 2000 and 2016, with students at affluent high schools more than twice as likely to win extra time as those at poorer ones.
Some specialists push back, linking the rise to wider access to mental health care and less stigma around seeking it, The Atlantic noted. Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told Testerman the school holds no power over accommodations and only follows the law.
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All the cool kids have mental illnesses now.
When I’m looking for an attorney the first thing I make sure of is that they have psychological or emotional condition. /s/
That designation should be emblazoned in bold letters on their college diploma.
I was going to say that was the result of their "indoctrination", but on second thought "conditioning" would be a better description.
I was only doing my job, sorting them by sex, race, insanity claims.
/Berkeley Law, citing their Nuremberg case law
Isn’t there tax payer money for these “disabilities”?
And who will require extra time to do anything when they are getting high hourly rates.
Let’s just call it what it is my friend......BRAINWASHING
Time, Privileges, and Money, AND they get to make a lateral move out of the White Oppressor class and into the Protected Victim class.
Makes complete sense. It is easier to be a victim with a disability.
Take any fed funds away permanently as it is a perfect example of redistribution of wealth. Let the states themselves worry about it.
I agree. Stamping “special needs” on the diplomas would right the ship.
Students with disabilities at Berkeley Law (as do other UC Berkeley students) receive
federal and state tax dollars in the form of govt financial benefits and federal student aid.
Financial support comes in a few distinct forms:
Direct Government Benefits: Students may qualify for government aid programs such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS).
Federal & State Educational Aid:
<><>Berkeley students receive support from the federal government (which funds Higher Ed Act programs for students with disabilities)
<><>and state funding, which covers general living costs, tuition, and disability-related expenses.
Campus Financial Aid Adjustments: Federal rules mandate that universities include funding for students with disabilities in their financial aid packages. Financial aid officers are also granted discretion to adjust these aid packages based on special circumstances or significant disability-related expenses.
Disability-Specific Campus Grants: UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program (DSP) administers funds like the DSP Student Technology Grant, which helps eligible students purchase assistive technology or specialized equipment.
Is “liberalism” officially considered a psychological disability?
the school holds no power over accommodations and only follows the law.
It’s time to end the ABA’s monopoly on control of accrediting law school. Let everyone get a bachelor of laws, LL. B., degree before becoming paralegals. Then let them sit for the state bar after a few years of on the job learning. Follow the British model of solicitors and barristers. No law schools would then be needed, or at least far fewer.
“I’m disabled!” in that falsetto Irish voice. Probably the only episode that bombed with me, but that part was pure Roy.
“Psychological and emotional conditions”
The snowflake admission policy—a seat for everyone, just tell us where it hurts.
WILL THEY GET MORE TIME IN COURT TO PRESENT THEIR CASES IN THE FUTURE???
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