if anyone wants to reminisce about getting your offer for medicine...

[tallaght01]

...go to the last couple of pages on this thread in the leaving cert forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...604717&page=12

The CAO places are just out. Good few people on there have got med. Reminds me how euphoric I was when I got my place. Literally danced around the garden.

Great days.

Med school is an amazing time, in my opinion.

[Sweet]

Hey there,after an anxious wait, results finally posted. Got my first choice, med in RCSI. The feeling is unbelievable!

[tallaght01]

Great work. Fantastic med school by all accounts. Do you mind me asking how you got on with LC points? Did the HPAT make any difference? Or did people still need 540+ to get in?

[bythewoods]

I just accepted Medicine in UCD!

I'm deliriously happy!

Can't even describe how happy I am that I've actually gotten it this time. I repeated y'see. Although, thanks to the good old HPAT, I had enough to get in with last year's points anyway...
I'd been convincing myself all Summer I'd be doing Human Health & Disease Science or Pharmacy. Didn't think I'd made it. Turns out I had plenty of points!

Still a little bit in disbelief. I could never see myself doing anything else with my life and am reallllllly glad I didn't just settle into something else last year.
So emotional..

Wish me luck all
The standard of the Irish Health Service is about to drop dramatically

[Piste]

I'll be going into 1st year RCSI myself!

[Sweet]

Originally Posted by tallaght01

Great work. Fantastic med school by all accounts. Do you mind me asking how you got on with LC points? Did the HPAT make any difference? Or did people still need 540+ to get in?

Sure, I got 535 but my HPAT score of 187 really proved to be the instrument of success. Delighted it's in place. I truly believe that it caters for students like me, relatively bright but lack the application and motivation to succeed in the long-winded Leaving Cert.

[scanlant]

Originally Posted by Sweet

Sure, I got 535 but my HPAT score of 187 really proved to be the instrument of success. Delighted it's in place. I truly believe that it caters for students like me, relatively bright but lack the application and motivation to succeed in the long-winded Leaving Cert.

Relatively bright? Sweet, you did an excellent LC, and congratulations on the result and best of luck in your course.

And well done to all those who get into Med this year, the hard work produced the results you deserved.

[Svalbard]

So today a few (ahem!) years ago I was NOT thrilled to get my med school offer.

I had pretty much convinced my self I wouldn't get in and was looking forward to doing Science. So I was stunned and bewildered with the offer and it took me a few days to warm up to the idea.

Was much more excited and borderline delirious to get my training scheme place though!

[mardybumbum]

I can remember it clearly.
I stayed up until six in the morning checking the CAO page every five minutes.
For some reason I thought it was a great idea to play this song over and over again.



Anywhooo, I listened to that song a few hundred times before the confirmation came through.
I was actually fairly shocked tbh. I only applied to one medical school and I wasnt even sure If I applied before the final date.
So, I clicked the confirmation button and ran into my parents bedroom.
Did a lil dance before I was promptly told to GTFO.
I spent the next few weeks wondering If the fact that I was arrested on my grad night would effect my place on the course.

Thats it I guess.

[tech77]

Everyone always says they were shocked.
For once i'd love to hear one of those 600 pointers on the news say "piece of pi$$".
Anyway, I was definitely surprised.
All "hard" subjects as well- none of your higher level geography for me

Also, agree with Tallaght about the myth of nerdiness associated with some high-acheivers.
Some of these people are just scarily talented.
Don't you just hate them.

[bleg]

I knew I had gotten pharmacy but didn't know if I'd get my 1st choice. Got it on random selection, deadly. Got up at 6 in the morning to check it.

One of my friends got the same no. of points and didn't get in. She got a re check though and then got the course so it was all good.

[PhysiologyRocks]

Oh tis well I remember. Mainly because it was very recently.

I had done my leaving cert before, so I knew I had my points all year, but I was still terrified that something would go wrong! I woke up far too early, woke my dad up and went downstairs, got the internet up and running and lo and behold, there lay my beautiful offer.

We all opened up champagne and I went for a nap. It was the best day of my life, and I've appreciated it every day since. *Tear*

[Anne-Marie!!]

I'll be going into first year medicine in NUIG! Was the best feeling ever to see that offer, still on a high!

[cGirl]

Are all you RCSIer's (and everyone else, I suppose) doing the 5 or 6 year course?

[Carsinian Thau]

Originally Posted by cGirl

Are all you RCSIer's (and everyone else, I suppose) doing the 5 or 6 year course?

I'm doing a six year course.

(But I started two years ago, so your question may not have been directed at me).

I'm not RCSI either.