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Fetac Offers from CAO

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    #182
    Amy12345678910
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Amy12345678910


    BrianG23 wrote: »
    So confused..rang DIT up and they said people who have their Leaving cert already still have to wait until 20th? Is anyone else in my boat or does everyone here have a Fetac or higher education etc?

    I have both? MY LC and my fetac award from 2011?


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    #183
    BrianG23
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭BrianG23


    Yeah come to think of it, last year was the same


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    #184
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    I rang both of my choices but couldn't get through. I've emailed CAO so hopefully they'll get back to me soon. How long did it take for them to get back to you?
    Amy12345678910 wrote: »
    Thanks, :) Did you ring up your college?


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    #185
    Amy12345678910
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Amy12345678910


    DonnaMarieAva wrote: »
    I rang both of my choices but couldn't get through. I've emailed CAO so hopefully they'll get back to me soon. How long did it take for them to get back to you?

    about twenty minutes, it was very quick.


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    #186
    RebeccahLouise
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭RebeccahLouise


    What are the chances of someone getting a place in the 1st round with FETAC then? A lady on the phone for the CAO told my friend it was very unlikely.


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    #187
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    You're lucky then. They still haven't emailed me back so I an assuming there is a huge back log!
    Amy12345678910 wrote: »
    about twenty minutes, it was very quick.


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    #188
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    I'm curious RebeccahLouise, why would it be unlikely? I haven't got my place yet (if at all) and I'm kind of stressing out!
    RebeccahLouise wrote: »
    What are the chances of someone getting a place in the 1st round with FETAC then? A lady on the phone for the CAO told my friend it was very unlikely.


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    #189
    BrianG23
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭BrianG23


    Haven't emailed me back either...from about an hour ago


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    #190
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    It's terrible. They're so unhelpful. :mad:
    BrianG23 wrote: »
    Haven't emailed me back either...from about an hour ago


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    #191
    BrianG23
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭BrianG23


    Complain! That'll learn em'


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    #192
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    Ha yeah! And see how how quick they act!
    BrianG23 wrote: »
    Complain! That'll learn em'


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    #193
    BrianG23
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭BrianG23


    Oh, they actually replied now. Turns out you were right Mr. S


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    #194
    PocketSC
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭PocketSC


    No offers today, devastated. Really thought would get at least a few of the bottom ones as I tried to fill up most of the spaces.

    Tried emailing CAO but my email address keeps coming up as invalid?
    Going to phone them now.

    When are second round offers out does anyone know?


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    #195
    amzy17
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭amzy17


    does any one know if cao are finished updating offers for today?


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    #196
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    No offers today and I have accepted that. So Im waiting on Round 1 which is on the 20th. We could still get a place by October. :)


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    #197
    andyseadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭andyseadog


    Ah Jesus i'm gutted. no offers.

    the course that i put for numbers one and 2 were both around 200-220 points the last few years and i got 370 points through FETAC.

    no help at all from CAO or the I.T.'s applied to.

    what do i do now then? just sit, wait and worry until round 2 or what?


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    #198
    Amy12345678910
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Amy12345678910


    andyseadog wrote: »
    Ah Jesus i'm gutted. no offers.

    the course that i put for numbers one and 2 were both around 200-220 points the last few years and i got 370 points through FETAC.

    no help at all from CAO or the I.T.'s applied to.

    what do i do now then? just sit, wait and worry until round 2 or what?

    I know how you feel, I think all we do now is just wait. It really sucks.


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    #199
    andyseadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭andyseadog


    Amy12345678910 wrote: »
    I know how you feel, I think all we do now is just wait. It really sucks.

    to be honest if 370 points didn't get me a 220 point course in round zero with just FETAC and mature applicants to battle with, i really doubt its going to get me the course in round one (ironically/ confusingly round two) when the sea of leaving cert students has to be battled with too.

    and the sickening thing, nobody even really tells you, "no, you havn't got it", just nobody says anything at all and your left wondering.

    very disheartening to say the least.


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    #200
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    @Andyseadog I agree completely with you. I emailed CAO to ask them to help me. I couldn't get through to the universities I applied to and CAO were so unhelpful. I also said that the offers were coming out slowly. This is their reply:


    Hi Donna-Marie

    I don`t understand your comments that the Fetac
    results are coming out slowly today.

    We received all FETAC results on Tuesday last and
    offers were made on Wednesday.

    Some Colleges have a quota of places reserved for
    FETAC applicants, e.g Nursing Courses.

    Such offers are based solely on your FETAC points.

    These offers are issued in Round 0

    Many institutions allow applicants to compete
    based on their FETAC points against the Leaving
    Cert points and these offers go out in Mid August

    How to calculate the FETAC points is available on
    our website under FETAC Information.



    Regards
    Ivor Gleeson(Íomhair Ó Glíosáin)



    All I'm asking for is closure. It simply isn't fair for us to be left in the dark and stress out until the 20th. It seems to me that CAO don't want to take responsibility for the staggering of the offers.

    Can anyone make heads or tails as to what this email is about. Thank you.


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    #201
    Calcifer88
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Calcifer88


    Nothing in the post this morning and no offer on the cao website, I applied for model making at IADT as a mature applicant and I got 570/600 on my portfolio so I was pretty confident I'd get an offer but now I'm just really worried!:(


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    #202
    Grehan100
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Grehan100


    Has anybody accepted a offer from ITB in blanchardstown. Please help!

    Kind regards
    Grehan100


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    #203
    DonnaMarieAva
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭DonnaMarieAva


    I've just called up the universities I have applied for. I asked them if I was accepted. And they said no. So now I have accepted the fact that I won't be going anywhere this year :( Congrats to all those who did get a place though. I wish you success and happiness :)


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    #204
    dharma200
    Registered Users Posts: 998 ✭✭✭dharma200


    Hi, have been following this thread.. just wanted to point out that some I.Ts are on the PILOT SCHEME, if this is the case then FETAC AWARD STUDENTS MUST COMPETE WITH LEAVING CERT STUDENTS for places. This means that if the I.T you have applied to is on the PILOT SCHEME then you will not receive an offer until 20th of August.

    Most universities are on another Fetac scheme and reserve a certain amount of places just for fetac students. If you have applied to a college on the Pilot scheme then you may well receive an offer on the 20th. hths


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    #205
    RebeccahLouise
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭RebeccahLouise


    Anyone from WCFE get ANY offers? I know a lot of people from WCFE and not one of us have received any offers from any institutions around the country!


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    #206
    lezizi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭lezizi


    I got offerred my first choice as a mature student on 5th July. I sat a level 5 fetac this year and our course is linked in to a course in lit.
    of everyone in the class bar me and another guy who got an offer on the 5th only one person in the class got an offer today, and it was his third choice. Everyone had good results I can't believe only one got an offer


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    #207
    ayumi
    Registered Users Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    dharma200 wrote: »
    Hi, have been following this thread.. just wanted to point out that some I.Ts are on the PILOT SCHEME, if this is the case then FETAC AWARD STUDENTS MUST COMPETE WITH LEAVING CERT STUDENTS for places. This means that if the I.T you have applied to is on the PILOT SCHEME then you will not receive an offer until 20th of August.

    Most universities are on another Fetac scheme and reserve a certain amount of places just for fetac students. If you have applied to a college on the Pilot scheme then you may well receive an offer on the 20th. hths

    So if you got an offer today, would you get an offer on the 20th on the pilot scheme?


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    #208
    dharma200
    Registered Users Posts: 998 ✭✭✭dharma200


    I am getting this information from boards.ie threads from last year:

    http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D67335175&ei=9awaUKDxKIe7hAe89oHQAw&usg=AFQjCNHoZt76CwfNvIecnSDKo0iE8t6DFA

    google fetac coa.... I amnt sure, but it seems if the college you have applied to is in the pilot scheme you will not receive offers until round 1 and will be in competition with leaving cert applicants for places.. thats how I am reading it so far hths


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    #209
    implausible
    Registered Users Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    I have been looking through the posts on this thread and it's obvious that some of you don't understand the system. The offers that came out today are for Higher Education Links Scheme students i.e. FETAC applicants who have applied for courses with limited places for FETAC applicants e.g. Nursing. If too many applicants have all distinctions, then it goes to random selection.

    On the 20th, FETAC students who have applied to get into ITs using their module results as points (Pilot Scheme) will get their offers. Round 0 IS NOT for these students.


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    #210
    dharma200
    Registered Users Posts: 998 ✭✭✭dharma200


    The Pilot scheme applies to anyone regardless of location of completion of a FETAC Level 5 and there are no places reserved like in the Higher Education Links scheme. FETAC students compete with Leaving Cert students for places. For the FETAC applciant this involves the substitution of your Leaving Cert with FETAC. Before you ask the two can not be combined. Some IoTs limit the number of FETAC applicants they take before in theory if they dont a course in an IoT could be drawn from entirely FETAC applicants. In direct contrast the Higher Education Links Scheme is limited places, lots of criteria in terms of module requirements and restricted. Check out http://www.fetac.ie/fetac/learners/hels/hels.htm for full details.

    (from thread posted above)


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    #211
    implausible
    Registered Users Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    lezizi wrote: »
    I got offerred my first choice as a mature student on 5th July. I sat a level 5 fetac this year and our course is linked in to a course in lit.
    of everyone in the class bar me and another guy who got an offer on the 5th only one person in the class got an offer today, and it was his third choice. Everyone had good results I can't believe only one got an offer

    Well done! There is huge demand for these places. Even students with all distinctions may not get places.


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