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Ok: just because this forum is anonymous: I'm going to ask ....because I do truly wonder, and do truly want to know.
If someone has a physical handicap (e.g. uses a wheelchair, cane etc) ...would it ...dissaude a professor from accepting the person? I know it's not supposed to, it shouldn't, it's against all ethical laws that I can even think of......
But.....does it happen? And not wanting to completely make a fundamental attribution error (heh), could it happen not just because a professor is a j* but because he's (or she's) worried that the physical handicap would interfere with a student's performance, or that the student might not be up to working as much as is needed....or I dunno, the lab isn't really equipped as an accessible space?
If someone say has cancer and came to an interview with a scarf over their head instead of wearing a wig, would that be bad? If the person did wear a wig, and the professor asked a student (as one professor did ask my friend who went to an interview [she doesn't have cancer but just to show that this question did get asked]) : do you forsee any circumstances that would impair you from performing at full capacity should I accept you as a student?
What if one doesn't want to disclose that they have a physical disability...? Would it be deceptive to say no? Should one be upfront? And, would being so upfront affect chances for admission? (Professors want productive grad students right? What if they mistakenly assume that person wouldn't be because of their disability?)
Sorry for the long question, but I truly do wonder...
THANKS LOTS,
Ilovecows
If someone has a physical handicap (e.g. uses a wheelchair, cane etc) ...would it ...dissaude a professor from accepting the person? I know it's not supposed to, it shouldn't, it's against all ethical laws that I can even think of......
But.....does it happen? And not wanting to completely make a fundamental attribution error (heh), could it happen not just because a professor is a j* but because he's (or she's) worried that the physical handicap would interfere with a student's performance, or that the student might not be up to working as much as is needed....or I dunno, the lab isn't really equipped as an accessible space?
If someone say has cancer and came to an interview with a scarf over their head instead of wearing a wig, would that be bad? If the person did wear a wig, and the professor asked a student (as one professor did ask my friend who went to an interview [she doesn't have cancer but just to show that this question did get asked]) : do you forsee any circumstances that would impair you from performing at full capacity should I accept you as a student?
What if one doesn't want to disclose that they have a physical disability...? Would it be deceptive to say no? Should one be upfront? And, would being so upfront affect chances for admission? (Professors want productive grad students right? What if they mistakenly assume that person wouldn't be because of their disability?)
Sorry for the long question, but I truly do wonder...
THANKS LOTS,
Ilovecows