The SSD Student Eligibility Form is the College Board’s request document for testing accommodations on the SAT, PSAT, and AP exams. You complete the 17-section form, attach documentation of your disability, and submit it through your school’s SSD coordinator using the SSD Online portal at ssdonline.collegeboard.org. Independent submissions can go by fax or mail. Review takes up to seven weeks, so the deadline that matters is not the test date but the accommodations deadline that sits several weeks before it.1College Board. Know Your Dates and Deadlines
What to Gather Before You Start
Incomplete submissions are the top reason for delays, and the College Board will not start reviewing until every required item has arrived.1College Board. Know Your Dates and Deadlines A doctor’s note or an existing IEP or 504 Plan by itself is rarely enough.2College Board. When a Request Is Denied What counts as sufficient depends on your disability category:
- Learning disorders such as dyslexia or dyscalculia: a psychoeducational or neuropsychological evaluation covering cognitive and achievement testing. The educational portion should be no more than five years old. Cognitive testing can be older, but evaluations done before third grade may not reflect current abilities.3College Board. Documentation Guidelines: Learning Disorders – Section: Instructions
- ADHD: a clinical evaluation with a specific diagnosis, evidence of symptoms in more than one setting, and records showing academic impact.
- Psychiatric disorders: a diagnosis referencing the DSM edition current at the time it was made, from a professional with appropriate credentials.4College Board. Documentation Guidelines: Psychiatric Disorders
- Physical or medical conditions: a physician letter describing the condition, how it affects testing under standard conditions, and any equipment needed.
You also need a signed consent form. Both the student and, for students under 18, a parent or guardian must sign it, and it must be on file at the school before any request goes through SSD Online.5College Board. Consent Form for Accommodations Request
One threshold question worth settling before you fill anything out: are you requesting accommodations that you actually use at school? The College Board cross-references your requests against your school records. Asking for extended time on the SAT when you do not receive extended time on classroom tests is the fastest route to a denial.6College Board. Accommodations
Filling Out the 17 Sections
The form is available as a PDF from the College Board accommodations website or from your school’s SSD coordinator.7College Board. Forms and How to Use Them Fields marked REQUIRED cannot be left blank.8College Board. College Board SSD Student Eligibility Form
Sections 1 Through 11: Personal and School Information
Sections 1 through 8 collect your full legal name, mailing address, school name, date of birth, gender, email, and country or postal code if you are outside the United States. Section 9 asks for your College Board High School Code, a six-digit number sometimes called the AI code. Your counselor or SSD coordinator can look this up. Homeschooled students use code 970000, and international students without a specific code use 000004.9College Board. How Do I Look Up a Students High School Attending Institution Code (AI Code)
Sections 10 and 11 ask for the date of your next College Board test and your expected high school graduation date. The College Board uses these to determine which deadlines apply to you, so get them right.
Sections 12 Through 15: Accommodations, Disability, and Documentation
Section 12 is where you select what you need. Options include extended time at 50% or 100% additional duration, braille format, large print, small group testing, extra breaks, and assistive technology such as text-to-speech.10College Board. Extended Time – Accommodations – Section: FAQ Request only what you actually use in class.
Section 13 asks whether you currently use those accommodations on school-based tests. Section 14 asks you to categorize your disability into the correct group: learning disability, ADHD, hearing impairment, psychiatric disorder, physical or medical condition, and so on. Section 15 covers what documentation you are attaching or uploading.
Sections 16 and 17: Signatures
Section 16 is signed by the school’s SSD coordinator or an official school representative. The coordinator verifies that the accommodations you listed are ones the school provides, that documentation meeting College Board guidelines is on file, and that the form is accurate.8College Board. College Board SSD Student Eligibility Form Section 17 is the student agreement. The separate consent form described earlier is what carries the parent or guardian signature.
How to Submit
The fastest path is through your school’s SSD coordinator, who submits the request and uploads documentation through the SSD Online portal.11College Board. SSD Online for Coordinators If your school does not have a coordinator registered, a staff member can sign up by submitting an SSD Coordinator Form; access is usually granted within one to two business days.
If you are submitting independently, as a homeschooled student or because your school cannot help, you can fax the completed form and documentation to 866-360-0114 or mail it to:12College Board. Contact Us – Accommodations
College Board SSD Program
6846 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 6070713College Board. Forms and How to Use Them – Section: Spring 2026 Update: New Mailing Address
Use tracked shipping. You are sending medical records and educational evaluations. The College Board updated this mailing address in spring 2026, so verify if you are working from older instructions that reference a New York office.
2026 Deadlines
Approval takes up to seven weeks, and the College Board publishes firm cutoffs for each test date. Miss the cutoff and your accommodations may not be in place on test day.1College Board. Know Your Dates and Deadlines
SAT Weekend
- June 6, 2026 test: due April 17, 2026
- August 22, 2026 test: due July 7, 2026
- September 12, 2026 test: due July 24, 2026
- October 3, 2026 test: due August 14, 2026
- November 7, 2026 test: due September 18, 2026
- December 5, 2026 test: due October 16, 2026
AP Exams
For the May 4–8 and May 11–15, 2026 testing weeks, requests and documentation must be received by January 16, 2026.1College Board. Know Your Dates and Deadlines That January cutoff catches many families off guard. If you are taking AP exams in the spring, the request needs to go in during the fall semester.
PSAT/NMSQT and SAT School Day (Fall 2026)
- October 1–2, 2026 testing week: due August 10, 2026
- October 5–9, 2026 testing week: due August 17, 2026
- October 12–17, 2026 testing week: due August 24, 2026
- October 19–23, 2026 testing week: due August 31, 2026
- October 26–30, 2026 testing week: due September 8, 2026
After You Submit
Once the College Board has your complete request, review takes up to seven weeks. If the reviewer asks for additional records, the clock resets for another seven weeks from the date those new documents arrive.14College Board. How Long Does the Accommodations Request Process Take This is why sending everything at once is worth the extra work upfront.
Your SSD coordinator can track status through the SSD Online dashboard, where each student appears as Approved, Not Approved, or Pending. You can check your own status through the Accommodations and Supports Dashboard at ssdstudents.collegeboard.org. The eligibility letter appears in both the coordinator’s portal and the student’s dashboard when a decision is reached.15College Board. Getting Your Eligibility Letter
Approval is portable. Once granted, your accommodations apply to the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, and AP Exams without a new request each time, and they remain in effect until one year after high school graduation.16College Board. Ive Been Granted Exam Accommodations by College Board in the Past Do I Need to Apply Again Two wrinkles: accommodations can be subject-specific, so extended time approved only for math does not carry to AP English; and on AP tests, extra breaks are a separate accommodation from extended time, so request both if you need both.
The SAT and PSAT are now delivered digitally through the Bluebook application, and approved accommodations load automatically when you open the app on test day.17Bluebook. Will My Testing Accommodations Be Applied in Bluebook Students previously approved for a human reader or scribe may see those accommodations converted to text-to-speech or dictation tools in the digital format, so confirm with your SSD coordinator before test day.16College Board. Ive Been Granted Exam Accommodations by College Board in the Past Do I Need to Apply Again Students approved for braille still test on paper with Unified English Braille and either Nemeth Code or UEB Technical Math notation.18College Board. Using Accommodations – SAT Suite – Section: Approved Accommodations Details
If You Are Denied or Partially Approved
Denials generally fall into two buckets: the College Board needs more information, or the documentation submitted does not demonstrate a functional impairment that supports the requested accommodations.2College Board. When a Request Is Denied The decision letter tells you which applies and what specifically was missing.
If the issue is missing documentation, gather the records the letter identifies and resubmit through your SSD coordinator. If the documentation was found insufficient, you need different or additional evidence, not another copy of what you already sent. Asking for a lesser accommodation such as 50% extended time instead of 100% without new supporting evidence is unlikely to change the outcome.2College Board. When a Request Is Denied
Partial approvals are common: the College Board may grant some accommodations while denying others if the documentation supports only part of what you asked for. Any resubmission triggers another seven-week window, so weigh timing against your upcoming test dates before deciding whether to press the denied portion.
Temporary Injuries Use a Different Form
A broken hand, recent surgery, or acute injury that will resolve before the next testing cycle does not go through the SSD Student Eligibility Form. The College Board calls these temporary supports, and they are available only to students already registered for a test who cannot postpone. Eligible tests include the weekend SAT, SAT School Day for seniors, AP Exams, and state-provided PSAT 8/9, PSAT 10, and SAT School Day.19College Board. Requesting Temporary Assistance
To request temporary supports, the SSD coordinator selects New Request and then Temporary Request in SSD Online. The school needs a signed parental consent form and a doctor’s letter describing the injury, degree of impairment, date it occurred, and expected recovery date. AP exams also require a Teacher’s Survey from each relevant AP teacher. Requests submitted less than two weeks before a scheduled test may not be approved in time.19College Board. Requesting Temporary Assistance Homeschooled students or those who cannot work with a school on a temporary request should call SSD Customer Service at 844-255-7728 or email ssd@info.collegeboard.org.