Reading Aid For The Blind

On the Princeton website, it reads "Princeton is one of only six colleges nationwide that offer need-blind admission and full-need financial aid to international students." Which are the other five?

Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Middlebury, MIT, Williams in addition.

2009-01-20 12:09:29 by Gillian M

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I just read this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/educat ion/31college.html?_r=1

Please read it before you post an answer.

After reading the article, I was shocked by how colleges are starting to reject lower income applicants based on how much financial aid they need. After reading that article, I want to know why the federal government doesn't step in and regulate which institutions can call themselves "need blind"? Why doesn't the federal government say that for an institution to be need blind, it must not consider an applicants ability to pay (AT ALL) and it must do so for all applicants (freshman, transfer, international, etc). Why isn't such a law in place? It would definitely help students discern one institution from another.

The article admits that the "need-blind" designation is fuzzy. Colleges are simply doing what they've always done -- admitted many students whose families can afford to pay their tuition so they can offer larger scholarships to needy students who need the financial assistance. With all the pressure to be more diverse, those scholarships for lower-income students are often used to admit minority students to provide campus diversity. The ones who may be getting squeezed out are the non-minority middle class students who need some financial assistance, but not a full ride. Unless they bring some special talent to campus, they may be passed over in favor of some less-talented alumni kid whose parents can pay their way.

2010-01-18 14:24:26 by xtremecatholic

I understand that visually they have no need for them, but I was contemplating HCI and disabilities and wondered whether or not the programs which read the text aloud require a monitor to be in place.

And, truth be told, I had a sudden flash of how odd it would be to walk through an office type situation to find one worker typing and clicking away without the aid of a screen.

Good morrow my merry milk maids!

I am a blind computer user, and I'm friends with many blind computer users and even computer programmers. For the most part, blind computer users do have monitors, even if they are totally blind and could never use one. No, JAWS and other screen reading software do not depend on the monitor at all. The monitor and the speakers are just two different output devices that can be used to access the same information. The reason blind people still have monitors is twofold. First, you'll be hard pressed to find a Dell rep or other computer store that will sell you a computer or laptop without a monitor, and most people aren't going to know how or aren't going to bother to remove a monitor from a laptop or discard a monitor that came with a desktop. Second, and most importantly, computers encounter errors, and sometimes for what ever reason, speech can be disabled or can't be accessed at all. When this happens, someone has to fix the machine, and that someone is going to need output other than speech.

I do know people who removed the monitors from their laptops to make them lighter, more power efficient, and easier to store in a backpack, but then when they had computer problems, they couldn't get anything fixed because speech wasn't working and there was no other output available.

2010-02-04 12:45:45 by Britannia Boy

got an email from a schools financial aid office about a problem between my css and fafsa. very selective need blind school, do they read thru financials for all 15,000 applicants or only the thousand or so accpeted, because if so im in! they send out decisions in about 2.5 weeks. thank you
thanks this is what i figured but my parents got excited haha. i'l just have to wait it out no other way to tell, thanks for your help

KJ:

There's no way to know for sure. I can tell you that they don't write to 15,000 applicants and ask for additional financial aid information, but it's also quite possible that you made some really glaring error in your aid applications, and that they routinely ask the 200 students who tend to make that error every year to update their information.

Also be careful not to confuse an otherwise completely innocuous document that you may receive from the school. Some schools maintain a department that does nothing but contact all the applicants with some questions about race and ethnicity and some other bland topics, in order to maintain reports of how very non-discriminatory they are. A need-blind school would do that in order to demonstrate that they truly are need-blind.

It could certainly be a positive sign that they're asking you to "top off" your financial aid info and clear up some confusion and/or disparities - but I'm afraid you just can't presume an acceptance out of that. If you get your hopes up too high, it will be all the more disappointing if the news isn't what you had hoped for.

Good luck - I hope you get in!

2010-02-25 11:45:40 by KingJames

Alright, I've read literally hundreds of questions on here and many, many other websites devoted to sleep disorders and yet nothing seems to help me.

My body doesn't want to go to sleep until 5 in the morning, even if I lay down at 10:00 (5 hours eariler). I always try to wake up at 8 in the morning, but usually can't on 3 hours of sleep.

I have asked my doctor for help, however he doesn't want to prescribe anything (and I mean anything, for any reason.) because I'm under 18. We can't go to another doctor because of our insurance.

I've tried every trick - warm milk, yoga, hot baths, exercise, tea, meditation, reading, music, blind folds, ear plugs, fans, grow lamps, massage pillows, aroma therapy, etc. etc. etc.

My last resort is to get some medication to knock me out when I need to be going to sleep, and stay on it long enough to establish a pattern. So, what over the counter sleep aids should I try? What should I look for? Please help!!!

Thank you :)

Most over the counter sleep aides contain diphenhydramine which is Benadryl. It works to help you to sleep. Tylenol PM works well too. It is a combination of acetominophen and diphenhydramine. The generic kind works just as well as the name brand too.

2007-08-25 00:53:31 by Jason