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Is anyone planning on going to DCU?

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  • 20-01-2015 6:22pm
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    Clare0101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Suppose the titles self explanatory but I just was wondering if many are going to DCU


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    sarah_97
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭sarah_97


    I intend to do the business course in dcu if I get the required points. Fingers crossed.


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    9de5q7tsr8u2im
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭9de5q7tsr8u2im


    How much is it?


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    sarah_97
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭sarah_97


    LuckyDude12 wrote: »
    How much is it?

    It's 455 at the moment but I expect it to go up by 15 points this year so 470 is the target go me.


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    Kremin
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Kremin


    sarah_97 wrote: »
    It's 455 at the moment but I expect it to go up by 15 points this year so 470 is the target go me.

    why do you expect it to go up 15? if i remember correctly its pretty much always been around 450, according to my friend on the course anyway?


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    Katie97123
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Katie97123


    Hoping for psychology in DCU. 535 seems to keep on getting further and further away tho!


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    Clare0101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Clare0101


    I'm planning on doing science education hopefully, my mind changes constantly though!


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    9de5q7tsr8u2im
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭9de5q7tsr8u2im


    Is there actually a set date when you cant change your course online before a fee applies or can you still wait until june if you're not sure what you'll be doing?


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    MaryHannah
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭MaryHannah


    You can change your mind up until the 1st of July for free, although there's a few months that you can't do it between I think maybe March and April? It's silly really, other than that, you can change it as many times as you want until the 1st of July!


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    CAO closing date for applications is the 1st of February. It re-opens for Change of Mind on the 5th of May and closes on the 1st of July. You can change your courses during that period.

    I'd suggest not leaving it until the last moment because it might get a little laggy or in a worst case scenario crash altogether.


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    sarah_97
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭sarah_97


    Kremin wrote: »
    why do you expect it to go up 15? if i remember correctly its pretty much always been around 450, according to my friend on the course anyway?

    Here's the points history for the last 3 yrs.


    Year Points
    2014 455
    2013 440
    2012 425


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    Kremin
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Kremin


    sarah_97 wrote: »
    Here's the points history for the last 3 yrs.


    Year Points
    2014 455
    2013 440
    2012 425

    Interesting, demand rises as the country begins to recover. Where can you check the history btw?


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    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    MaryHannah wrote: »
    You can change your mind up until the 1st of July for free, although there's a few months that you can't do it between I think maybe March and April? It's silly really...
    As usual, there are reasons ... :p

    CAO churn out a lot of numbers after the 1st of February to colleges, which allows them to do some planning (though obviously figures can change in the last change of mind period, but they can make projections based on such changes in the years before to get a pretty accurate guesstimate). That wouldn't take 3 months though.

    From the students' point of view, it represents 3 months when it's fairly pointless obsessing about course choices, and they can't hop in and change things every day, and hopefully they concentrate instead on studying and getting those points.


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    sarah_97
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭sarah_97


    Kremin wrote: »
    Interesting, demand rises as the country begins to recover. Where can you check the history btw?

    Go to qualifax.ie and fill in the information and you preferred course will come up. It has all the information and at the end of the page it will have the points from previous years. Hope it helps :)


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    Kremin
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Kremin


    sarah_97 wrote: »
    Go to qualifax.ie and fill in the information and you preferred course will come up. It has all the information and at the end of the page it will have the points from previous years. Hope it helps :)

    Thanks!

    Oh great the course I wanted went up 50 points in the last year, just brilliant.


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    Anonymagician
    Registered Users Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Anonymagician


    Kremin wrote: »
    Oh great the course I wanted went up 50 points in the last year, just brilliant.

    It's very unlikely that it'll go up a *whole* lot more then. So..good news maybe?


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    Magnate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Magnate


    Kremin wrote: »
    Thanks!

    Oh great the course I wanted went up 50 points in the last year, just brilliant.

    What course would that be? Mine also jumped similar points :(


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    Kremin
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Kremin


    Magnate wrote: »
    What course would that be? Mine also jumped similar points :(

    Common entry into Actuarial Maths, seems like its gonna go right up to 540 with the direct entry in the next two years :l


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    sunshinejo
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭sunshinejo


    Yeah I do hopefully to study journalism, points are insane


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    westernfrenzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭westernfrenzy


    Journalism here. Need 440 but aiming for 460-480 to be safe.


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    sunshinejo
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭sunshinejo


    Same as me. Are you doing many HL subjects? I'm struggling to keep 5 but need the points!


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    Kremin
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Kremin


    I'm doing 7 HL, I was gonna drop history or english but honestly I don't see the point, just gonna use one as a backup in case the other one is horrible. I am not doing much study for either of the two.


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    westernfrenzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭westernfrenzy


    sunshinejo wrote: »
    Same as me. Are you doing many HL subjects? I'm struggling to keep 5 but need the points!

    4. I'm gonna need a lot of luck to get in!


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    sunshinejo
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭sunshinejo


    Omg don't even start with history I do a case study every night so much to learn!!


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    sunshinejo
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭sunshinejo


    I know right! We may start saying our hail Mary's


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