What courses did u pick for your CAO ???

tootyflutty

logic123 wrote: »

i dont reckon the points will change that much from previous years. As almost half of ireland has applied to medicine, human health and disease,pharmacy so i reckon points on other things will be slightly lower

But there is still the same amount of places to be filled, and people with high points don't just apply for Medicine. Also because of the economy less people are doing apprenticships or going straight to work so approx 2000 more people have applied to college. The Admin in Maynooth told me arts would go up by 20 points, the biggest increase in points they have had in a while, and that it would be the same for nearly every course accross the board except for building and development courses.
Scary thought

logic123

how many out of the total CAO applications get one of there choices?

Craguls

All of them as long as they get the points and meet matriculation.

I wouldn't invest too much in those statistics anyway, they were published in February based on peoples first choices then. I know in my class alone alot of people switched their first preference based on those stats alone.

If your course has 300ish places like arts or most of the common entry ones tend to; major increases and decreases are unlikely, at most it'd be 20 either way.

Then again this is all speculation

logic123

so a course like neuroscience 'average intake 10' is that a highly popular course or not so popular?

tootyflutty

logic123 wrote: »

so a course like neuroscience 'average intake 10' is that a highly popular course or not so popular?

It's impossible to tell. You'll just have to wait and see if you get a place like the rest of us.

Craguls

Hard to say, to be sure.

I know in Trinity it's very popular but they only hand out places on a competitive basis after two years in the common entry course.

In UCD it's supposed to be next to impossible to get in that way, as with Pharmacology. So it's recommended you apply like you have to that set denomination.

I've just checked the prospectus though it says there's 20 places so that's just doubled your chances :P

I tend to read these forums often enough, with the results your expecting I'd be very surprised if you missed out on medicine. I'd say the AAAB should get you into neuroscience easily enough too. Points tend to jump up and down often enough though as you'll see here

Year Points
2008 435
2007 470
2006 465

I got these off qualifax

Don't take my word for it though, I'm just a student like yourself!

tazbars

why is the arts degree in UL so high? Arts is usually around 350points but in UL is 440? will this drop with the year thats in it?

randylonghorn

logic123 wrote: »

So an intake of 10 is probably fixed?? :S that cant be right

Why?

There are a lot of factors colleges consider, such as the number of potential employment opportunities. Some very specialist courses work better with small numbers and a very intensive student / teacher ratio. Specialist lab facilities etc. may be limited, and dictate numbers. Plus sometimes colleges prefer to have small groups of highly motivated students who will do very well, go on to postgrad, be highly sought after and therefore enhance the reputation of the course and the college ...

logic123 wrote: »

Im sure they would try to ajust the number of seats accordinly to how many applied for the course...

Not necessarily, especially with specialist courses with high running costs.

logic123 wrote: »

the number of intake for medicine is higher, is that because there is a higher demand for medicine than neuroscience?

Higher demand AND greater number of employment opportunities.

i'm a smiler

1. dentistry ucc
2. dentistry tcd
3. medicine ucc
4. medicine tcd
5. medicine ucd
6. medicine nui galway
7. pharm ucc
8. pharm tcd
9. optometry
10. bess tcd

Please god can I get my first choices!!!!
All will be revealed soon enough............

p1akuw47h5r3it

Philosophy with Russian

Economics wit Russian

Bus. wit Russian (REALLY dont want this tho)

Religion and Theology wit Russian... All trinity

The rest are insignificant

If I dont get pts for first two, hopin i dont get pts for bus wit rus and get to do R&T instead!!!!!!!!!!!

Allison91

GY101-Arts (I know I wont get this)
GY301-Science
GY304-Biotechnology

Can't remember the rest. :rolleyes:

logic123

im so hoping i get the points, fingers crossed, im doing A levels BTW

Seachmall

Level 8 Course Choices:
1. LM051 Computer Systems
2. LM110 Multimedia and Computer Games Development
3. LC331 Software Development
4. LC391 Computer Networks and Systems
5. DT228 Computer Science
6. CR116 Software Development and Computer Networking
7. TL330 Computing with Games Development
8. CW238 Software Development
9. CW208 Computer Games Development
10. CR106 Software Development


Level 7/6 Course Choices:
1. GA775 Computing in Software Development
2. DT089 Electronic and Computer Systems
3. CW207 Software Development
4. SG136 Computing - Software Development
5. SG137 Computing - Systems and Networking
6. TL325 Computing with Games Development
7. DL131 Computing in Multimedia Programming
8. SG138 Computing - Database Management
9. WD151 Software Systems Development
10. LC351 Internet Systems Development

I'm hoping to get the first two in UL, if I get my second option I can transfer to my first after the first year. I've been doing computers since I was 13 and is the only thing I can see myself doing :pac:

stesh

DanDan6592 wrote: »

Philosophy with Russian

Economics wit Russian

Bus. wit Russian (REALLY dont want this tho)

Religion and Theology wit Russian... All trinity

The rest are insignificant

If I dont get pts for first two, hopin i dont get pts for bus wit rus and get to do R&T instead!!!!!!!!!!!

If you 'REALLY dont want' Business with Russian, why on earth is it number 2 on your CAO form?

username4321

English and Russian
European Studies
Russian and French
Russian and Philosophy
Russian and Classic Civilisation
English
Russian and Business Studies
Arts Galway
Arts Maynooth
English,Media + Cultural Studies IADT.

lilmissprincess

Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC
Arts, UCC
Irish Studies, TCD
Arts, NUIM

TanG411

1. Arts - UCC
2. Computer Science - UCC
:pac:

CyberWaste

Quick question, just crossed my mind just now, but what happens, and just say it does, that you dont get the points you need for ANY of the courses you have down for your CAO, what do you do then? Can you apply for a course that the points you got suffice for and if theres places available? Just wondering. I should have filled in the level 7/6 course application...

xOxSinéadxOx

stesh wrote: »

If you 'REALLY dont want' Business with Russian, why on earth is it number 2 on your CAO form?

I've recently decided I want my 3rd choice more then my 2nd :pac: oh well

p1akuw47h5r3it

stesh wrote: »

If you 'REALLY dont want' Business with Russian, why on earth is it number 2 on your CAO form?

First of all it's no. 3

Because I only realised after the closin of the CAO that I didnt want it... I'm not the only person to be like this...

Ders Sinead and there was a whole thread on this aswell
Edit: It was actually username who started that thread I'm on about

Jammyc

Yeah, Im kind of in the same boat, between UCD and TCD Science. Kind of prefer UCD but TCD is before it. Sure well see what happens.

Hoku

CyberWaste wrote: »

Quick question, just crossed my mind just now, but what happens, and just say it does, that you dont get the points you need for ANY of the courses you have down for your CAO, what do you do then? Can you apply for a course that the points you got suffice for and if theres places available? Just wondering. I should have filled in the level 7/6 course application...

This was answered somewhere on the first couple of pages of this thread.

Basically, if you don't get the points for ANY of the courses, you'll have to either repeat or apply again next year.


Anyway, here are my courses (all in UCD):

1. Commerce with German
2. Commerce with Law
3. Commerce with Chinese Studies
4. Science Omnibus
5. Actuarial Studies
6. Engineering Omnibus

Nothing else.

tootyflutty

Cyber waste - The handbook says something along the lines that on the 17th of August (i.e offers day) people will be offered there highest course possible on their CAO, but also on that day the CAO writes to people informing them that they did not/will not recieve any offers if they have not reached the required points of any courses.

p1akuw47h5r3it

Wen do we find out the points coarses are??

Is it tomorrow?

Hoku

First round of offers is on Monday 17th, so I think that's when you actually find out the points for the courses and where you will be attending.

tootyflutty

Posted on Teletext at 6 am of the round one offers, or they are printed in the newspapers that sometiome after the offers are all accepted.

cereal-killer

1. GY112 Arts with Film Studies-430
2. GY114 Arts with Irish Studies-340
3. GY101 Arts-345
4. GY116 Arts with Global Women’s Studies-300
5. DN012 Arts
6. DN061 History, Politics and International Relations
7. CK101 Arts
8. CK102 Social Science
9. DN007 Social Science
10. GY103 Arts (Public and Social Policy)


I got 405 so it looks like Irish studies! Which is good as I was terrified it was going to be women studies!

fearanpost

1 PD102 Primary teaching (Gaeltacht Applicant)
2 PD101 Primary teaching
3 CM002 Primary teaching (Gaeltacht Applicant)
4 CM001 Primary teaching

ayapatrick

Higher
1. GA980 Design and technology education. (GMIT Letterfrack) 395 points
2. LM094 Woodwork with concurrent teacher education (think thats right)(University limerick) 430 points
3. SG??? ENGINEERING IN CIVIL ENG (sligo it) 270 points

Ordinary
1. SG??? Engineering in civil engineering (sligo it) 140 points
Highly likely il get offered both first choices - got 445:D

RandomIrl

fearanpost wrote: »

1 PD102 Primary teaching (Gaeltacht Applicant)
2 PD101 Primary teaching
3 CM002 Primary teaching (Gaeltacht Applicant)
4 CM001 Primary teaching

How much do you reckon it will rise?