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    #62
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    ~Candy~ wrote: »
    oh god, after reading the whole trend i still have no idea how it works, that deptmarment of my brain must be blocked or what..could someone please help with mine


    1. TR017 Law and Business ( i want to do this but i don't think i will get the pts)

    2. DN021 Business and Law ( i really want to do it )
    3. MH406 Law and Business ( erm, i dunno about this one)
    4. CK201 Commerce ( i want to do this)
    5. DN015 Commerce not sure )
    6. TR081 Business, Economic and Social Studies(not sure)
    7. CK211 Commerce (International) with Chinese Studies ( i want to do this)
    8.
    9.
    10.

    basically i was thinking if i don't get my first two i will want to stay in cork and do commerce...i am not sure if i will go to maynooth to do it
    what will happen if i didn't get my first 2


    should i move the dublin opinions down?

    1 DN021 (Because you you REALLY want this one above all other right?)
    2 TR017
    3 CK201
    4 CK211
    5/6/7 MH406 / DN015 / TR081


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    #63
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    ~Candy~ wrote: »
    what will happen if i didn't get my first 2?

    The CAO computer looks at the leaving cert points you have and if you have satisfied the basic matriculation requirements (could be passed maths or a language or english) it offers you the highest course on your list that you qualify for.

    The CAO rule is: Put the courses in the order you want them. Completely ignore the fact that you think you may not get the points for something.

    For example some people are saying that Law in trinity will have a drop in points because solicitors are being let go left right and centre because of the construction recesssion.

    If you want to stay in cork you have to put the cork courses at the top of your list.


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    #64
    JSK 252
    Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    pathway33 wrote: »
    The CAO computer looks at the leaving cert points you have and if you have satisfied the basic matriculation requirements (could be passed maths or a language or english) it offers you the highest course on your list that you qualify for.

    The CAO rule is: Put the courses in the order you want them. Completely ignore the fact that you think you may not get the points for something.

    For example some people are saying that Law in trinity will have a drop in points because solicitors are being let go left right and centre because of the construction recesssion.

    If you want to stay in cork you have to put the cork courses at the top of your list.

    Even if the another person who is in contention for that course has put it no.1 on their list and got lower points than you did but you put it no.4 say?


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    #65
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    Even if the another person who is in contention for that course has put it no.1 on their list and got lower points than you did but you put it no.4 say?

    yes say if you got 500 points and your cao in august is like this

    1. commerce ucd 510
    2. business trinity 520
    3. economics trinity 505
    4. law trinity 495

    then you get law in trinity in round 1 providing you satisfy the basic matriculation requirements for e.g maths, english whatever

    say if the other person got 490 points and their cao in august looked like

    1. law trinity 495
    2. commerce ucd 510
    3. business trinity 520
    4. economics trinity 505
    5. arts ucd 350

    then they would get arts in ucd in round 1 providing matric requirements satisfied

    say in round 2 then for the other person their cao reads

    1. law trinity 485
    2. commerce ucd 480
    3. business trinity 515
    4. economics trinity 500
    5. arts ucd 350

    as they now qualify for law trinity they are offered that place. Note that they cannot be offered commerce ucd as it is below law trinity. they can then either choose to stick with arts ucds from round 1 or more likely pick their favourite course law trinity.


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    #66
    RandomName2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Anybody know how the 'Vacant Places' aspect of the CAO works???


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    #67
    Lucet
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭Lucet


    Now, I'm mixed up again. I got HEAR and in UCD they doesn't offer HEAR for international arts students... Maybe just change to ordinary arts and take up German as the subject?
    (It will be soo funny if I get into commerce :D)


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    #68
    Power-surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Power-surge


    Is the CAO website down at the moment?


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    #69
    Zonda999
    Registered Users Posts: 5,532 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    Power-surge wrote: »
    Is the CAO website down at the moment?

    Must be. I have'nt been able to get to it either. Bad time for this FFS! A couple of days to go to the deadline and all!


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    #70
    poppy08
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭poppy08


    yup, i've been trying to access it all day....catching a flight at 3 so hope its working by then!:eek:


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    #71
    english4490
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    after finally deciding what i wanted to put down today! and i'm trying to get on since 6pm, fair annoying, it hardly crashed from usage this early! :rolleyes:


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    #72
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    poppy08 wrote: »
    Yahey! some optimism:D

    I like half the people on here have completely lost rein of myself this week, hopes and dreams dashed, so i think its about time we look on the bright side of this whole fiasco and hope that the really smart people are really lazy ( i.e we kick their asses in lc points)...and it'll all sort itself out:D

    can't wait for CAO to close then i can stop changing my second choice 50 times a day:o
    If, for example, you miss your first choice and get your second choice, third choice and so on. Can you pick between your other 9 choices or do you HAVE to go with your second one?


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    #73
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    jumpguy wrote: »
    If, for example, you miss your first choice and get your second choice, third choice and so on. Can you pick between your other 9 choices or do you HAVE to go with your second one?

    If you're offered your first choice, you either take that or nothing...you cant choose between the lower ones.
    If you miss your first choice (dont get the points for it), and get offered your no.2, you have to take it aswel, you cant pick any lower ones.

    Order of preference! Forget points!


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    #74
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    jumpguy wrote: »
    If, for example, you miss your first choice and get your second choice, third choice and so on. Can you pick between your other 9 choices or do you HAVE to go with your second one?
    No, you can NOT pick and choose between your choices.

    Which is why you should list them in the order you want to get the courses.

    Read above thread.


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    #75
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Oh sorry for posting off-topic...have a knack for it lately. Well that's abit sh!te then. Kinda unnessicarily narrows one's options, doesn't it?


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    #76
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    No, it just means you have to make your mind up NOW rather than then.

    Seriously, dude, how on earth do you think the CAO could do it otherwise? :)

    It's already a mathematical and computer processing headache of the first order ...


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    #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Oh sorry for posting off-topic...have a knack for it lately. Well that's abit sh!te then. Kinda unnessicarily narrows one's options, doesn't it?

    If it wasn't the way it is now it would be an administration nightmare. I can't imagine how the system would work if people were allowed to chose their course in August.


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    #78
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    Ooh...i knew i wasnt going mad! Posts got mooooved! :pac: Confused i was :p

    Ehm, cao, site seems to be down. It better wake up soon...haven't gone near it since january >_>


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    #79
    Craguls
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Craguls


    So was I the only one to find out about the CAO.ie crash mid application?:rolleyes:

    Shame finally had the bloody thing sorted!


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    #80
    Jammyc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    Hmm, still doesnt seem to be workin!:mad:


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    #81
    ynwa_17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭ynwa_17


    Looking to change my CAO too, because i know if i leave it any later i'll forget. Decided just to focus on UL and UCC business type courses rather than Law in DCU and Arts in Maynooth as i have no interest in Dublin unless i get my number 1 (Law and Economics in UCD).


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    #82
    Craguls
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Craguls


    I'd say it'll be down until Monday, it crashed around 5:30 yesterday afternoon which is outside their office hours so it'll probably go unnoticed until then


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    #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Craguls wrote: »
    I'd say it'll be down until Monday, it crashed around 5:30 yesterday afternoon which is outside their office hours so it'll probably go unnoticed until then

    I seriously doubt that.


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    #84
    Isaac702
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Isaac702


    This happens every year. I am amazed that they have not invested in a redundancy yet.
    Also if the server has just crashed they should be able to telnet into the power module (If they have one that can do this that is) connected to the system and tell it to reset the system. It will cut the power and then turn it on again.

    Considering how mission critical this is for candidates I am unsure why they don't implement some kind of backup system when they know the primary system will go down.

    Or another side of this why haven't candidates had this done for months. Procrastination is not a good way to go when this like this could happen.


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    #85
    snappieT
    Registered Users Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Isaac702 wrote: »
    Also if the server has just crashed they should be able to telnet into the power module (If they have one that can do this that is) connected to the system and tell it to reset the system. It will cut the power and then turn it on again.
    Did a quick check there, server is alive, though pings are disabled. You can ssh and telnet in, so it's just the webserver that has made a mess of itself, rather than the whole machine becoming unstable. Should be a 5 minute fix.


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    #86
    Craguls
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Craguls


    It's just back now, I stand corrected


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    #87
    bstoran
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭bstoran


    dont think anyones got a harder choice than me...

    medicine UCD or accounting UCC......

    think iv an alright chance for med, got 85% in hpat..

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggghh


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    #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bstoran wrote: »
    dont think anyones got a harder choice than me...

    medicine UCD or accounting UCC......

    think iv an alright chance for med, got 85% in hpat..

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggghh

    Why not put medicine first (in however many colleges) and then accounting immediately after? That way, if you don't get the points for medicine, and you do get the points for accounting, you'll be offered accounting. It's not that complicated of a dilemma, really.


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    #89
    bstoran
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭bstoran


    -JammyDodger- wrote: »
    Why not put medicine first (in however many colleges) and then accounting immediately after? That way, if you don't get the points for medicine, and you do get the points for accounting, you'll be offered accounting. It's not that complicated of a dilemma, really.

    because I don't know if i want to do medicine??
    totally different jobs, and very different cities as well.....


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    #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bstoran wrote: »
    because I don't know if i want to do medicine??
    totally different jobs, and very different cities as well.....

    I'd pick medicine. Accounting, to me anyway, sounds like the most tediously boring course/job imaginable. I'd rather chop of my left arm than be an accountant (I'd actually rather chop off my left arm than be a doctor too, though).


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    #91
    -ilikeshorts
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭-ilikeshorts


    phasers wrote: »
    Level 8 Course Choices:
    1. DC131 Communication Studies
    2. DT552 Media Arts
    3. TA022 Creative Digital Media
    4. DN012 Arts
    5. MH101 Arts
    6. MH109 Media Studies

    I've my 1 and 2 backwards to you but still not sure did you go to the dcu or what made you choose that over media arts


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