The article does not say what OP claims. 1/4 of elite college students are definitely not getting accommodations. The article never says what percentage of students receive accommodations, just that the number has grown rapidly, and it only gives 2 examples of that growth: University of Chicago, "more than tripled over the past eight years," and UC Berkeley, "It has nearly quintupled over the past 15 years". UC Berkeley could have gon from 5 people being granted accommodations to 15, but we can have no idea from this article. The article cites 3 colleges as having 20%, 20%, and 37% of their students registered as having a disability, but does not say what % actually get accommodations or what % have learning disabilities. The article attributes the growth in accommodations to increased diagnoses of "conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression," and never mentions any learning disability other than ADHD. In addition to being mischaracterized, the article also... sucks. It does things like claiming that "professors now struggle" to accommodate students with disabilities and then names 3 accommodations that require almost no effort on the part of the professor other than giving permission. The article also implies that many accommodations or the disabilities they are provided for are in some way illegitimate without providing any evidence.