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Letters coming in for interviews & informal offers. Post here! Mod note 1st post.

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  • 05-03-2012 8:13pm
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    annacanna
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭


    MOD NOTE: Theres been a couple of threads lately on informal interviews and offers so I've merged the three most recent. I'd like everyone to use this thread for all info and queries on interviews, offers, etc so we don't end up with a load of similar threads.
    Cheers - Paperclip2 :)


    I have applied to Sligo IT as a mature student, just wondering if anyone has any idea of when matures applicants usually get called for interviews?


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    scoob70
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭scoob70


    So have I :D. I went to the Sligo IT open day to the mature student presentation and was told the mature student interviews will begin around the end of April - start of May. What course have you applied to annacanna?


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    annacanna
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭annacanna


    i went to the open day and one of the current mature students told me she was called in march.
    ive applied for early childhood care and education. what are you hoping to do?


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    scoob70
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭scoob70


    Hmmmm - March. Well I guess that might mean we find out if we've got a place sooner :). I guess if I've not had an application or a letter or something off them by mid April I might give them a quick call. I've applied to do the higher cert. in science. I must be mad! - but very excited.


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    anyone know when UCD/Trinity usually call for mature interviews?


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    Shryke
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    I would love to know this with regards to NUIG if anyone has any experience. I wonder if most colleges operate around the same timeframe?


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    KERSPLAT!
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    Wondering the same about DIT. Got an email today (got my hopes up :o ) but it was just to confirm my CAO app and info on another open day


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    also, does anyone know how trin/ucd contact you to notify of an interview?is it by phone/email or through the cao account,or even old school post?


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    Lisa 333
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    Hi, I applied to Trinity as a mature student , got a letter last wk , my interview is in two wks ......... dental nursing course ............. any one got any tips , feeling nervous about it xx


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    Dores
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Dores


    congratulations!
    I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    Dores wrote: »
    congratulations!
    I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...

    phew,thats a relief.one of the courses i've applied for is history & political science , hopefully the historians at trinity are just a bit lazy about getting 'round to posting interview letter's.


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    Izzie11
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Izzie11


    Anyone hear anything from UCC yet?


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    Lisa 333
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Lisa 333


    Dores wrote: »
    congratulations!
    I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...

    Thank You Dores,
    I hope you get your letter soon..;)


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    beirne83
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭beirne83


    I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

    Beirne83


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    Lisa 333
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Lisa 333


    beirne83 wrote: »
    I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

    Beirne83

    Anyone else doing Dental Nursing ????????:D


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    Feu
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Feu


    beirne83 wrote: »
    I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

    Beirne83

    iirc we got our interview letters around the 3rd week of march, with interviews mid april. So i wouldn't be surprised if you hear this week. Good luck, and let me know if you have any Qs about the course :)


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    beirne83
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭beirne83


    Thanks so much for your reply Feu. Fingers crossed I'll get it this week. I will let you know how I get on.
    Thanks
    Beirne83


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    heard today that the pfo letters don't get sent 'til at least a month after the invitations...that's sick if true,god knows you'd be clinging on to the little shred of non-existant hope 'til you were put out of your misery!5 envelopes waiting for me today when I got in...bills and bloody bank statements the lot of them.tut tut trinity college, tut tut.


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    Feu
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    be sure to call the department you have applied for, they may be able to give you some information over the phone, e.g. when they are sending the letters out, so you are not waiting by the door for the postman!


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    antkeane
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭antkeane


    So I wrote to TCD last week to ask when we will be getting our interview dates and stuff like that. I thought it would be good to have this thread here so people can see as people get informal offers and interview dates in etc...
    Then we can kind of have an idea of how its all going. I hate waiting!!

    (BTW I got this back from TCD)
    Hi Anthony,

    Decisions should be made on interview dates in the next couple of week. You will hear from us then, one way or the other.

    So if you get an interview date in any college or a letter in the post. Write it down in here so we can see the dates you are getting them as everyone gets them. :) If we do!!!


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    grasshopper1
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭grasshopper1


    anfield bound wrote: »
    also, does anyone know how trin/ucd contact you to notify of an interview?is it by phone/email or through the cao account,or even old school post?

    Hi ya, I went for an interview last year. I can't remember but looking through my email I got an acceptance mail in late July. So it would have been between April~July. Have you applied to UCD directly?

    When I went for the interview, I was asked to write a short essay about myself, I was really nervous as I much prefer to type. But she was so kind, and mostly it was about when I had last done any studying; how did I feel about studying etc

    good luck

    grasshopper


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    Larianne
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    Just to say from past experience, each department sends out letters at different times. I heard from Pharmacy (Rejection) a good two weeks before Physiotherapy (Offer). So if someone else has got a letter, don't panic too much. :)


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    I know a few people have gotten letters from Trinity already (not me!), UCD told me that theirs would be around now aswell...will keep you posted. Now back to my station by the letterbox...


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    Dores
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Dores


    hi. I just got letter from Trinity history department (refusal :'( ). Still waiting for any news from Social Work or Sociology.

    Now I am going to my bedroom to put my head under the duvet and stay this way until next letter will come!


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    grasshopper1
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭grasshopper1


    Dores wrote: »
    hi. I just got letter from Trinity history department (refusal :'( ). Still waiting for any news from Social Work or Sociology.

    Now I am going to my bedroom to put my head under the duvet and stay this way until next letter will come!

    Really sorry to hear about that. Have you applied to do any of the Access courses?

    I'm doing one at the moment and I would really recommend it, if you've been out of the system for a long time, or not really sure if it's for you.

    Bye,
    grasshopper1


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    Right, I'll go first so! Letter from Trinity waiting for me when I got home today, inviting me to an interview on April 3rd for History and Political Science. Phase one complete! Hoping for another couple next week, fingers crossed.


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    Got a letter inviting me to an interview for History and Political Science at Trinity on April 3rd. Fingers crossed for a couple more next week!


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    Feu
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Feu


    great news anfield!


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    anfield bound
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭anfield bound


    Feu wrote: »
    great news anfield!

    gracias! I've been so wrapped up in other courses I applied for that I semi forgot about this one... at least I have a week and a bit to get my story straight! Have to try and sculpt my web of lies into some sort of tangible rant!


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    Feu
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Feu


    Yeh definitely get on that, iirc, a girl in my class was grilled over why she had put a different course first --- so have your rationale all worked out!


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    peacock169
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭peacock169


    Received letter from Maynooth to come for interview on April 4th for Biotechnology. Rang DCU and they said interviews begin week starting April 16th, so on that basis i would expect letters, (invitation or rejection) should be 2 weeks previous. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone.


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