Banking on second round offers

irish_man

Just wondering if there are any people banking on 2nd round offers.
i need my 1st choice to go down by ten at the moment.

so how many points do u need your 1st choice to go down by?
and as well will there be many doing the "all-nighter" like the 1st round offers?
can't see many doing it though :P

Lawliet

I'm hoping random selection will be cleared for my course.

I wont bother pulling on all nighter this time, it was fun for round one cause there was a lot of people on and there was tension with people promising to buy papers and others claiming they knew points etc, it was pretty fun but I doubt there'd be too many on this time. I think I'll just go to sleep and set my alarm for 5.50 in case the CAO gets attacked again!

jfrmbray

Yeah I am.....kinda.

I'll be happy enough with the course I have atm(Liberal Arts in UCD),but I'd still prefer to have one of my higher choices,I got ****ed over by random selection for BESS in trinity on first round so hopefully I'll get offered that.I have english in UCD and english in TCD both higher up on my CAO but they've both dipped below and above the 500 mark in recent years so they're impossible to call :mad:

Although I'd prefer to go do BESS rather than english in UCD now,I'll still be pretty happy either way.

loike

when is second round

Lawliet

Thursday

theaint

I'm banking on arts in ucd to drop 10 points. However there is no vacant place on the vacant space list on the cao website. Does this mean there's no chance? :S

Lawliet

theaint wrote: »

I'm banking on arts in ucd to drop 10 points. However there is no vacant place on the vacant space list on the cao website. Does this mean there's no chance? :S

No vacant places are for courses that have exhausted the list of candidates i.e. not enough people with the courses minimum entry requirements applied. Often the courses with vacant places are in low demand or in private colleges.

Brenn2345

Anybody out there awaiting 2nd round offers?
i'm waiting on random selection, thursday cant come quick enough!
share your distress

A Changer

I'm hoping for History in Trinity to go through random selection and drop five points. English dropped by the same amount last year, at the same points level, but I'm still not counting on it. I'm happy with my English course in Maynooth, but I'll jump on the opportunity if it shows itself.

theaint

Can anyone see arts in ucd actually going down by 10 points? It has a massive number on intake and im unsure if this is a good or bad thing for me

Niche market

Would someone care to tell me what this random selection thing is and how it works?? Thanks

Aoifey!

Niche market wrote: »

Would someone care to tell me what this random selection thing is and how it works?? Thanks

I'll try explain , say there's 2 places left in a course and the next 5 people have the same amount of points (say 450), then 2 people would be randomly selected from the 5 and when your looking at the points it'd show as 450* because not all the people with 450 got in. Think that's it anyway! But it's really annoying if you're one of the people on 450 that didn't get it cause it was just totally random.

revz

Waiting on Pharmacy, missed out on a mistake in my CAO/random selection last year, can't believe the points went up this year (in RCSI, tho I'd rather still be in trinity so if that drops all the better :rolleyes:).
Could save me from moving to England.

**Timbuk2**

Best of luck tomorrow with the second round offers, especially to those who missed out due to random selection. I really hope you get what you want!

Brenn2345

What 'random selection' courses are people waiting on?
Rad therapy in trinity anyone?

Lawliet

I'm science in Trinity

ChiefBrody

Was really disappointed when I got Physio in RCSI due to random selection in Trinity, now I'm not sure if I'll accept it if I get it 2nd round... Think I need to go have a long hard think....

Da Shins Kelly

I'm waiting for a place on Arts in NUIG, after a f*ck up on my CAO application. Hopefully it'll all be OK. I feel nervous about it, even though I've got more points than was needed for the course.

RedRebel92

if i already accepted my 1st round offer can i still get a 2nd round offer if its a higher preference??

Lawliet

RedRebel92 wrote: »

if i already accepted my 1st round offer can i still get a 2nd round offer if its a higher preference??

Yes

brandy2006

am i wouldnt be bankin on the 2nd round offers because you mightnt get an offer at all! you should hav made sure you accepted an offer in the 1st round to make sure you got any offer at all!!! i accepted my 5th preference course but then again all my courses are the same but in different locations unfortunately! im hopin i mite get waterford in the 2nd round even tho im 15 points short but my entry requirements are good!

felic

Good luck to everyone waiting on round 2 offers tomorrow. ANd if things still dont go your way... dont see it as the end of the world. There are always options!

zam

I got my 5th choice. Last week I really wanted my 4th choice (I'm 10 points off) but if I get it tomorrow I know it'll just annoy me cos I've gotten the idea of this other course into my head now and stuff. It'll just be one more decision to make. :P

ColRyan

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67794261#post67794261

Should interest you.

TimeToShine

Actuary and Finance to drop by 20 points? I think not

snooleen

My course isn't on the list that was mentioned in the post linked above Do I still stand a chance? I'm 30 points off.....:/ so I doubt it in that respect. Maybe round 3 will be kind

Four-Percent

hello everyone... hope you all get your course, wheeeeeee, come on law and german, drop by 5! also i know i'm making a fool of mysekf!

seanbmc

Hoping arts will drop 5 points

brandy2006

the 2nd round offers are outbut there are no 2nd round points beside the previous points on the cao website on some of the courses; there are no 2nd round points for waterford! dont they have to have 2nd round points for every college? does this mean they havengt posted the offers from waterford yet?

Lawliet

I think no second round points means that there were no places to offer in that course for the second round. Though it's strange that no course in Waterford had any places. I don't know what that means TBH

brandy2006

yes thats what baffles me you see so im wondering have they maybe not sent out the offers yet or do you get your offer straight away bang on 6:00

If your entitled to any offers you get them at 6am on the dot.

aimzxx

that sucks!!! i guess im screwed so. anyone no when 3rd round is out???

i like pie

aimzxx wrote: »

that sucks!!! i guess im screwed so. anyone no when 3rd round is out???

there are no official dates once round 2 is over, you might receive an offer any time or any day, they probably email you. Good luck:)

aimzxx

thanks but do you no if i have to wait until the last day of acceptance for round 2 to be over 1st. im so stressed out as im putting off lookin for accomodation as its opposite ends of the country.

i like pie

aimzxx wrote: »

thanks but do you no if i have to wait until the last day of acceptance for round 2 to be over 1st. im so stressed out as im putting off lookin for accomodation as its opposite ends of the country.

yes i think you do because the cao will not know how many people have accepted/rejected the course yet. i've heard of people get offers right up until october so don't lose hope if you don't hear anything for a while:)

aimzxx

its so hard not to! and i only found out about the hear/dare scheme today which i would have qualified for. does any1 no if theres a late app for that????

LadyGaga!

Lawliet wrote: »

I'm science in Trinity

Congrats on finally getting it!

Lawliet

LadyGaga! wrote: »

Congrats on finally getting it!

Thanks

ScrubsfanChris

Offers will still go out untill the end of October to fill vacant places.
If you haven't gotten a place yet, mabey contact the college/department to see what the situation is after today.

Don't worry guys, there's still 1 and a bit weeks untill the term starts.

Brenn2345

still waiting hopefully on round 3?