[blindlaw] Wish to connect with blind lawyers who have studied at Oxford

[Rahul Bajaj]

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your inputs. While I will definitely contact you to solicit more concrete information and to connect with your friend if I get the scholarship, I'd be grateful if you could describe in broad terms what kinds of reasonable accommodations they offered you. I am looking at this from the vantage point of staying alone in Oxford as well as pursuing the academic coursework.

I think the people administering this scholarships may be skeptical about the possibility of a blind person studying alone at Oxford. So your insights will help me disabuse them of that misapprehension.

Best,
Rahul

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> On Oct 14, 2017, at 10:16 PM, Derek Manners <dmanners at jd16.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rahul, Oxford has amazing accommodations. I went to an undergrad program there and had no problems. I also went to school with someone at Harvard who was blind, had done multiple degrees at oxford and who was doing a masters at the Kennedy school who I'd be happy to put you in touch with. He thought Harvard's accommodations were awful in comparison to Oxford. 
> 
> Best regards
> Derek 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 14, 2017, at 5:02 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I hope this message finds you well. I am considering applying to Oxford this year for their BCL programme, which is their equivalent of the LLM, and would therefore like to connect with anyone who is on this list who may have studied at Oxford.
>> 
>> While my decision to apply is contingent on getting a scholarship that I have applied for, I'd nonetheless like to solicit insights from those who have done this before about the reasonable accommodations that they obtained from Oxford. 
>> Please feel free to contact me off-list if you may be able to help.
>> Best,
>> Rahul
>> Sent from my iPhone
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