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Possible mitigating circumstance?
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<blockquote data-quote="goatenthusiast12" data-source="post: 143011" data-attributes="member: 26402"><p>Got it. However, I'd like to prepare myself in case I receive lower than a 2.1.</p><p>I have exchanged emails with my university over the past 2 days and I have been told that my circumstances can no longer be taken into account as I was (3 months) too late to inform them of my disability, and thus revisiting past assessments is not possible. I think this is unfair as students who have newly gotten diagnosed still don't know how to exactly navigate life with their disability, and it also does not always immediately occur to us that our disability has affected our studies. I only recently came to know that the disability department in my university offers help to students with hearing impairment.</p><p></p><p>In my previous email, I had requested the university to include my mitigating circumstances in their records so that I could use it as evidence when applying to law firms. In response, they stated that the university 'does not add any caveat to any documents'. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems like they are saying that it is not their responsibility to communicate this information to potential employers. I'm not really well aware of how this whole process works, so maybe I'm in the wrong here for expecting them to put my hearing impairment in their records.</p><p>It seems unlikely that my university will accept my reasoning. So here comes my next question, can I still claim mitigating circumstances for my MCQ to law firms despite not having university records that confirm it? I have medical records that confirm my hearing impairment, would this be enough?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goatenthusiast12, post: 143011, member: 26402"] Got it. However, I'd like to prepare myself in case I receive lower than a 2.1. I have exchanged emails with my university over the past 2 days and I have been told that my circumstances can no longer be taken into account as I was (3 months) too late to inform them of my disability, and thus revisiting past assessments is not possible. I think this is unfair as students who have newly gotten diagnosed still don't know how to exactly navigate life with their disability, and it also does not always immediately occur to us that our disability has affected our studies. I only recently came to know that the disability department in my university offers help to students with hearing impairment. In my previous email, I had requested the university to include my mitigating circumstances in their records so that I could use it as evidence when applying to law firms. In response, they stated that the university 'does not add any caveat to any documents'. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems like they are saying that it is not their responsibility to communicate this information to potential employers. I'm not really well aware of how this whole process works, so maybe I'm in the wrong here for expecting them to put my hearing impairment in their records. It seems unlikely that my university will accept my reasoning. So here comes my next question, can I still claim mitigating circumstances for my MCQ to law firms despite not having university records that confirm it? I have medical records that confirm my hearing impairment, would this be enough? [/QUOTE]
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