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Back
in
February
2020,
I
was
favorably
recommended
for
the
Doctor
of
Veterinary
Medicine
program
by
Dean
Jezie
A.
Acorda
and
the
College
Admissions
Committee
of
the
College
of
Veterinary
Medicine.
According
to
the
Registrar,
I
would
be
receiving
a
copy
of
an
acceptance
letter
by
e-mail
at
the
end
of
March
2020
once
the
Academic
Year
schedule
for
First
Semester
2020-2021
was
finalized.
Fast
forward
to
September
2020,
I
never
received
it,
including
other
important
information
such
as
class
registration.
I
questioned
the
registrar
as
to
why
they
never
sent
me
a
notification
and
information
as
it
pertains
to
registering
for
classes.
A
reply
e-mail
from
Maribel
L.
Dionosio-sese
had
a
rejection
letter
attached
to
it.
After
reading
the
rejection
letter,
I
realized
that
she
and
UPLB
denied
me
admissions
on
the
basis
of
having
a
disability,
which
is
known
in
other
countries
(including
the
United
States)
as
disability
discrimination.
To
be
specific,
I
was
denied
admissions
due
to
penalties
received
by
them
for
disclosing
my
disability,
inquiring
about
disability
services,
and
voicing
concerns.
Throughout
the
rejection
letter,
she
and
UPLB
attempted
to
justify
their
decision
to
reject
someone
who
met
all
of
the
academic
requirements
for
DVM
admissions.
Also,
she
and
UPLB
made
a
futile
attempt
in
making
me
feel
ashamed
of
my
disability.
Mrs.
Sese
looks
down
on
disabled
applicants,
and
favorably
on
the
regular
and
gifted
and
talented.
She
held
my
disability
against
me,
which
consequentially
discouraged
all
international
disabled
applicants
from
applying
for
admissions.
She
and
UPLB
insinuate
that
disabled
applicants
like
me
would
not
be
able
to
tackle
the
DVM
program
despite
the
absence
of
an
Office
of
disability
services.
To
put
it
another
way,
she
and
UPLB
believe
that
disabled
people
can
never
be
veterinarians,
or
better
yet
are
incapable
of
being
veterinarians.
I
would
go
even
further
as
to
say
that
she
and
UPLB
send
a
strong
message
that
says
disabled
applicants
are
not
welcome
to
apply
for
admissions,
and
that
any
of
them
who
submits
an
application
that
reveals
their
disability
will
have
it
held
against
them,
and
automatically
be
denied
admissions.
She
would
have
been
fired
and
faced
severe
litigation
if
she
had
been
working
for
an
American
university/college,
and
disability
discriminate
like
what
she
did
here.
To
those
international
disabled
planning
on
applying
to
UPLB:
Reconsider.
I
wasted
my
time,
energy
and
spending
at
least
300
on
the
entire
application
process.
A
registrar
like
Mrs.
Sese
should
not
even
be
given
that
much
power
to
deem
a
favorable
recommendation
of
a
disabled
applicant
null
and
void,
and
get
away
with
disability
discriminating.
Current
University
of
the
Philippines
president
Danilo
Concepcion
and
all
members
of
the
Commission
for
Higher
Education
Philippines
refuse
to
denounce
the
continual
discrimination
towards
disabled
applicants.
