CAO choices

partyatmygaff

Now that the CAO list is drawing close I think it's time for a CAO thread to see what everyone else is applying for.

I've registered for the CAO but still haven't inputted my choices just yet. Still thinking about the order but my preliminary list is

1. TCD Medicine
2. RCSI Medicine
3. UCD Medicine
4. TCD Pharmacy
5. RCSI Pharmacy
6. NUIG Medicine
7. UCC Medicine
8. UCC Pharmacy
9. Unsure
10. Unsure

As for Level 6/7 I amn't sure if i'll even fill it in as none interest me too greatly.

For Choices 9 and 10 i'm still quite unsure. I'm thinking TCD Science and failing that Medicinal Chemistry.

Bbbbolger

So far mine is:

1 and 2: Medicine in RCSI and UCD (can't decide on the order)
3: Medicine NUIG
4: Radiation Therapy TCD
5: Physioterapy UCD
6: Physiotherapy RCSI
7: Physiotherapy UL (likely to drop it though)
8: Occupational Therapy TCD
9: Occupational Therapy NUIG
10: Science TCD

rage against the leaving

1. Actuarial and Finance studies UCD
2. Actuarial Maths DCU
3. Actuarial Maths Common entry DCU
4. Financial Maths & Economics NUIG
5. Mathematical Science NUIG
6. Maths and Physics UL
7. Maths and Economics UL
8. Arts (Maths and Economics) UCD
9. Science NUIG
10. Finance and Investment WIT

DaveMur1

Anyone who didn't apply yet get thinking!

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Only want my first choice not interested in anything else.

1. BIS in UCC
2.Maybe ,Commerce UCC

Bottleopener

Still deciding, got a lot of options going through my head right now :P

paddy978

Is this free to change?

DaveMur1

paddy978 wrote: »

Is this free to change?

Ye, free to change your mind up to 1st july, just make sure you apply before 20th January or at least 1st Feburary!

GoldFour4

1. Commerce - UCD
2. Finance - UCC
3. Commerce - UCC
4. Business Information Systems - UCC
5. Business and Law - UCD
6.Arts - UCC
7. Law and Accounting - UL
8. Journalism and New Media - UL
9. Arts - Economics / Politics and Intl Relations - UCD
10. English with Drama - UCD

Marthaa

1. Business and Law - UCD
2. Law - UCD
3. Commerce - UCD
4. Law - UCC
5. Law Plus - UL
6. Law and Accounting - UL
7. Business Studies - UL
8. Civil Law - NUIG
9. Corporate Law - NUIG
10. Commerce - NUIG

Think I'll leave it at ten

theowen

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Now that the CAO list is drawing close I think it's time for a CAO thread to see what everyone else is applying for.

I've registered for the CAO but still haven't inputted my choices just yet. Still thinking about the order but my preliminary list is

1. TCD Medicine
2. RCSI Medicine
3. UCD Medicine
4. TCD Pharmacy
5. RCSI Pharmacy
6. NUIG Medicine
7. UCC Medicine
8. UCC Pharmacy
9. Unsure
10. Unsure

As for Level 6/7 I amn't sure if i'll even fill it in as none interest me too greatly.

For Choices 9 and 10 i'm still quite unsure. I'm thinking TCD Science and failing that Medicinal Chemistry.

Why arn't they the other way around :S

partyatmygaff

theowen wrote: »

Why arn't they the other way around :S

I'd happily take Medicine or Pharmacy. Both appeal to me just about the same so I put it more in order of university preference than course preference.

Dave_Kilkenny

I have applied to the CAO but yet have been asked for my exam number (haven't got it yet mind you) so did I **** up somewhere?

GoldFour4

Dave_Kilkenny wrote: »

I have applied to the CAO but yet have been asked for my exam number (haven't got it yet mind you) so did I **** up somewhere?

Nope your grand , we dont get them for another while !

Ricky92

Bess TCD 475*
economics & sociology TCD 445*
Economics & sociology UCD 365
Economics & sociology UL 330


Thats its

niamhallen

Science- Galway
Science- Maynooth
Biotechnology- Galway
Physics and Medical Physics- DCU

Aaaaaand that's about it :P

ConstantJoe

Mine are:
1. NUIM Computer Science & Software Engineering
2. NUIM Science
3. UL Multimedia & Computer Game Design
4. UL Computer Systems

I've got another 6 I'm vaguely interested in, but I'll probably go for one of those four, most likely numero uno. At UL they tell me that if you put one of those two courses down on your CAO they'll invite you in during the Easter Break to try it out for a day, so I figure it's well worth at least putting it down for now.

River Song

1. Aeronautical Engineering - UL
2. Engineering Choice - UL
3. Science Education - DCU
4. General Science (Maths & Physical Sciences) - UCD
5. Mechanical Engineering - UL
6. Science Education - NUIM
7. Maths - TCD
8. Aviation Technology - DIT
9. Mechanical Engineering - UCD
10. Science Choice - UL

elarkla

1. Primary Teaching - Pats
2. Primary Teaching - Froebel/Maynooth
3. Primary Teaching - Marino
4. Journalism and Irish - DIT
5. Journalsim and Irish - DCU
6. Arts (Geography and Irish) - UCD
7. Arts - Maynooth

soccymonster

1. General nursing - UL
2. General Nursing - NUIG
3. Intellectual Disability Nursing - UL
4. Industrial Biochemistry - UL
5. Science Choice - UL

That's all I got so far
Not particularly sure about pharmecutical and industrial chemistry in ul yet. Bleh. Deciding is hard

Grindylow

1. CK203 Business Information Systems
2. LM050 Business Studies
3. TR082 Business and Computing
4. TR084 Social Studies (Social Work)
5. CK102 Social Science

DaveMur1

Noel2k9 wrote: »

1. CK203 Business Information Systems
2. LM050 Business Studies
3. TR082 Business and Computing
4. TR084 Social Studies (Social Work)
5. CK102 Social Science

Nice to see someone with similar ambitions,BIS FTW!

Grindylow

DaveMur1 wrote: »

Nice to see someone with similar ambitions,BIS FTW!

Funny thing is, it wasn't on my CAO until I read your post.. Then I remember it and put it to #1! :P

EverybodyLies

1. Science-Trinity
2. Medicinal Chemistry-Trinity (I know it has a higher points req, but I thought I'd stick it down anyway)
3. Computer Science-Trinity
4. Science - Biological, Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences.-UCD
5. Computer Science-UCD
6. Biomed Science-Galway
7. Biopharmaceutical Chemistry-Galway
8. Science-Galway
9. Biomed Science-DIT
10.Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Chemistry-Maynooth

Tbh, really just aiming for number 1. I'll take whatever I get though.

DaveMur1

Ha, Ye that is fairly funny I actually had just done the same & put

TR082; Business and Computing- Trinity College Dublin.

Never actually seen this course available ,thanks !

plein de force

1. European Business (French) DCU
2. Business studies International DCU
3. Commerce International (French & Spanish) UCD
4. International Business and Languages DIT
5. Applied Language and Intercultural Studies DCU
6. Arts (Business and French) NUI Maynooth
7. Arts (French and Spanish) UCD
8. International Business Blanchardstown IT
9. European studies Tallaght IT
10. Business NCI

8,9,10 are kind of on the safe side things

ruadhan

1. DCU **European Business (Transatlantic Studies)
2.*TCD **Business, Economic and Social Studies (BESS)
3.*TCD **Management Science and Information Systems Studies
4.*DCU **Business Studies International
5. UCD **Commerce International*-*Chinese*/*French **
6. NUIM **International Finance and Economics
7. UL ** Business Studies with a Modern Language (Japanese)
8.*UCC **Commerce (International) with Chinese Studies
9. WIT **International Business
10. WIT **Business

Sort of similar to the poster above.. Not sure about the order of like the first four. Still unsure about which I really want to do. Depends as well if I get my choices on UCAS

plein de force

were you at the DCU open day's business talks? transatlantic studies sounds amazing

NSNO

1) TCD - Computer Science
2) TCD - Business & Computing
3) DCU - Computer Applications
4) DIT - Computer Science
5) DIT - Computing

Haven't quite decided how I'll fill out the rest of it yet or if I'll bother with the level 6/7. Probably should to be sensible, I suppose. Although I am very, very confident about getting my first choice. Aiming for 500, so the only thing that might possibly trip me up is an abysmal showing in my Maths exam, but on average over the 7 exams I should do well enough.

Oh well, this really marks the beginning of the end of this school lark, doesn't it? Have to say that I won't be missing it!

emzz

*psychology - UCD
*psychology-NUIM
*Primary teaching- Marino
*Primary teaching-Pats
*Arts- NUIG
*Arts-NUIM
*Journalism and irish-DIT


anyone applying for psychology in DCU? it's not yet an accredited course so i'm kinda iffy about it!

ruadhan

plein de force wrote: »

were you at the DCU open day's business talks? transatlantic studies sounds amazing

No I wasn't there. What were they saying? All about two years in Boston and stuff? That's what attracts me mainly to it

jumpguy

At the moment I've only got the medicines on my form sorted out...I have still have to fix up my second choices but it's looking likely to be radiation therapy in TCD for number 6 and after that biomed, health + life sciences in UCD, science in TCD, and some of the biomedical stuff in UCC and NUIG to fill the rest. The industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry will probably be moved down the form (it's a nice course though).

1. Medicine (NUIG).
2. Med (UCC).
3. Med (TCD).
4. Med (UCD).
5. Med (RCSI).
6. Pharmaceutical + Industrial Chemistry (UL)

AnneElizabeth

Still very undecided. So far I have:

1. Engineering TCD
2. Computer Science TCD
3. Engineering UCD
4. Engineering DCU
5. Engineering NUIG
6. Computer Science UCD

(Can't remember the order of the last few and the site is down at the moment).

They don't really make sense in terms of points though. I'll probably change them around later on.

Deedeecupcake

1: Primary Teaching - CICE
2: Primary Teaching - Marino
3: Primary Teaching - Pats
4: Primary Teaching - Freobel
5: Early Childhood Education and Care - Carlow IT

And then I'm stuck! I don't want to do anything but primary teaching and I'm pretty confident of my first choice (375) but there's that little voice in my head telling me I need a back up! I'm thinking something along the lines of science or forensics, random I know. My headmaster keeps trying to push me towards second level teaching, but I have no desire at all to teach teenagers *shudders*
I'm filling in level 6+7's for the fun of it. Thinking along the lines of early child ed in cit and analytical science in Carlow.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Been advising loads of lil 6th years atm so thought I'd share my wisdom with you guys too! Mods if you want to move or delete this go ahead and I apologise for whatever I did!

1. Do not not put down a course because teh points are too high. In fact don't even look at the points for your choices of 1 - 9. I'm sure you've all been told this 1,000 times but just put everything in your order of preference. Whatever course appeals to you most is number 1. i don't care if it's 20 points or 600! (I have just had to kill someone for doing the opposite of this so clearly some people still don't know this!)

2. Always have a back up of some sort. One course at number 10 that is attainable no matter what. If you're aiming for a certain profession something that can be a backdoor into this is the perfect number 10. Arts would be one of the best bets: can get you into psychology, law, teaching, etc. Science is also common for medicine and Vetinary. Things can go wrong and you may end up disappointed so try save yourself ending up with 0 options and keep yourself a back up.

3. Don't forget that the decision that you make now is not your final decision. You still have 5 months to change your mind as much as you want. In fact after the exams is nearly the best time as you will have a better idea of how your exams actually went.

4. When researching courses look at everything! Obviously the main thing is what the course entails but also look at the college, how you would get there (commuting, moving up), how you feel about the campus, anybody who you have met there. And most importantly when looking at courses go into deeper detail than just the main information. Find out what modules you will actually be studying, are they the kind of thing that you would be interested in in that subject? Are you given options within modules? Find people who have done the course too to get a genuine opinion of it. Someone who knows exactly what it's like. Sometimes the big difference for people between the same course in two different places is what modules you are offered and that can be the difference between which would suit you more.

5. Don't panic. There is no point in this at all! CAO is not the end of the world. it's just another one of those annoying bumps that 6th year likes to bring!

6. if you don't get what you hoped for don't give up. That's what your back up is for and remember that there is a back door into everything. this time next year no one will care what points you got. You will be in the course you chose and in a few years you will have the degree/diploma/certificate/whatever to prove that you did it! Trust me it's not worth the stress at the end of it!

7. If this time next year what you thought to be the perfect CAO choice turns out to be a disaster. Tell someone! Don't suffer because you made your choice. Drop out and find something better for you. So many people only realise when they start their course that it's not what they thought it would be. Don't be ashamed

This is all coming from personal experience from doing this all myself 2 years ago and the results I got from it. I don't want to see anyone disappointed because they didn't get their choice from silly mistakes or ending up with nothing.

Also I'm sure there's a couple of potential Law students here and I would hugely suggest putting down Arts in Maynooth as your number 10! It saved me after a disaster of a leaving cert! I was absolutely gutted on results day and if it wasn't for my number 10 I have no clue where I would be! Luckily for me that was the year that Maynooth decided to offer Law as an Arts subject! I'm now a 2nd year Law and History BCL student and I could not be happier!

If anyone has any CAO, LC, College, NUI Maynooth, Law, or Law through Arts in maynooth questions feel free to PM me! I'm happy to help!

Keano!

Is 5 chocies too few? (Level 8) - no level 6's or 7's and i'm going to look into the Guards too

unknown13

Keano! wrote: »

Is 5 chocies too few? (Level 8) - no level 6's or 7's and i'm going to look into the Guards too

Well, I got offered my 5th Choice last year. You would be alot safer having all 10 down. Incase an exam or two went pear shaped, which is what happened me.

Lexii307

still a bit confused with the last 2/3 but the rest are good

paddy978

Is there some rule that you have to have a course down now i.e you can rearrange the order but come June you cant add a new course.

XxMCRxBabyxX

paddy978 wrote: »

Is there some rule that you have to have a course down now i.e you can rearrange the order but come June you cant add a new course.

Not at all. You can chop and change courses as much as you want!
Only exceptions would be those like music etc that involve an interview or have a pre-exam results requirement!

LilMissCiara

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Not at all. You can chop and change courses as much as you want!
Only exceptions would be those like music etc that involve an interview or have a pre-exam results requirement!

And medicine because of the Hpat.

XxMCRxBabyxX

LilMissCiara wrote: »

And medicine because of the Hpat.

Sorry meant to mention that too!
It kind of came under pre-results requirement!

But thats only if you add medicine after isn't it? as long as you've done the Hpat I think you can change around choices. Someone should prob double check that though

Ciaramb92

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

But thats only if you add medicine after isn't it? as long as you've done the Hpat I think you can change around choices. Someone should prob double check that though

As long as you have medicine somewhere in your 10 choices, by the Feb deadline, you can move it up and down until July 1st. If you've UCC Medicine on your list, you can't add NUIG medicine after the Feburary closing date, for example!

XxMCRxBabyxX

Ciaramb92 wrote: »

As long as you have medicine somewhere in your 10 choices, by the Feb deadline, you can move it up and down until July 1st. If you've UCC Medicine on your list, you can't add NUIG medicine after the Feburary closing date, for example!

grand that's what I thought

paddy978

Say for Business or Arts though, I dont have NUIG down now but in June can I add them.

LilMissCiara

paddy978 wrote: »

Say for Business or Arts though, I dont have NUIG down now but in June can I add them.

Yeah you can do that!

fulhamfanincork

1) bis ucc
2) arts

really wanted to put down bis in galway down as 2 as its lower points but am not allowed:mad::(

XxMCRxBabyxX

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

1) bis ucc
2) arts

really wanted to put down bis in galway down as 2 as its lower points but am not allowed:mad::(

It's you CAO! You choose your order!
Don't order it by points though! Order it in the order you would prefer to do them! So if you would rather do arts have arts no. 1, if you would rather business have that no. 1!

fulhamfanincork

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

It's you CAO! You choose your order!

Unfortunately it's my parents paying for it, so ultimately they have the choice what college I go to.

ct89

Great Choice Lads:

AL044 Real Estate (Valuation and Management)

XxMCRxBabyxX

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

Unfortunately it's my parents paying for it, so ultimately they have the choice what college I go to.

One bit of advice: Don't let your parents decide what course you do. They may be paying but it's your life and you're the one who will be studying. Don't be miserable just because your parents are paying. You're nearly an adult, possible already are therefore your decisions are your own

fulhamfanincork

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

One bit of advice: Don't let your parents decide what course you do. They may be paying but it's your life and you're the one who will be studying. Don't be miserable just because your parents are paying. You're nearly an adult, possible already are therefore your decisions are your own

It would take me 6 grand a year (estimate: fees + accomodation + money for books and living money). I don't have that kind of money so I'd be relying on my parents and would feel it would be unfair of me to put pressure on them.

However BIS is the only course I want to do, so if I don't get BIS in cork I'll be stuck with a piss around arts degree unfortunately. :mad: