EU Student Admissions?

Mark200 · 13-05-2009 9:37pm #1

Hey so I'm just asking this for a friend. She's doing her leaving cert this year. She's from Slovakia but she's been living here for nearly 3 years. She has perfect English and she's doing higher level English... I think she got a B or C in her mocks. So she was just wondering since she doesn't do Irish and she's not Irish, does she just have to apply through the cao like everyone else? Does she need anything else like a cert or anything to prove fluency in English?

devinejay · 13-05-2009 9:55pm

I'm sure if she can display a suppressed desire to persecute catholics trinners will let her in.

Seriously though I would have thought that the fact that she's doing the LC and applying via CAO would be enough, and that she'll be treated as any other student in the same boat.

Mark200 · 13-05-2009 10:08pm

devinejay wrote: »

I'm sure if she can display a suppressed desire to persecute catholics trinners will let her in.

Seriously though I would have thought that the fact that she's doing the LC and applying via CAO would be enough, and that she'll be treated as any other student in the same boat.

Yeah that's what I thought too but she keeps worrying about it so just thought I'd check. Her careers guidance councillor seems to be pretty much no help.

mathew · 13-05-2009 10:09pm

aren't you entitled to free education via cao if you've spent 3 of the past 5years in secondary education. So she'd be in the same admissions boat as everyone else..

devinejay · 13-05-2009 10:13pm

There is a disconcerting trend amongst guidance councilors that an awful lot of them seem to be dreadful. I've heard of good ones, but they're a rare breed!

HoboJesus · 14-05-2009 9:49am

e-mail or call someone in charge to make sure, no need relying on educated guesses (as reliable as they are). Maybe the CAO enquiries office?

experiMental · 14-05-2009 9:55am

She needs to apply by CAO, if she is doing her leaving cert this year.

However, if she feels that her grades from Slovakia are higher than her coming LC results, she should definitely speak with Trinity admission staff ASAP

-ME- · 14-05-2009 10:23am

I think she'll also have to submit her Irish exemption form to the CAO. That's what I had to do, and when I received my CAO confirmation letter this month it stated that they were aware of my exemption from Irish. I was born in England, but even the Russian/ Brazilian people in my year had to do this too. Make sure she sorts it out before the CAO deadline.

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