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Reid Entrance Exhibitions?

  • 15-01-2011 3:53pm
    #1
    thayes93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Ok, well basically I might be going to Trinity to study either Maths or TP next year, and I saw something in the prospectus about Reid Entrance Exhibitions...

    These look great, but I'm not too sure about the eligibility requirements..
    I am from Kerry alright, but the thing says that my family has to be of "limited means". Exactly what that means I'm not too sure, I mean we're not of unlimited means..

    Can anyone shed a bit of light on exactly what the eligibility requirements for the Reid is?


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  • #2
    dabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭dabh


    thayes93 wrote: »
    Ok, well basically I might be going to Trinity to study either Maths or TP next year, and I saw something in the prospectus about Reid Entrance Exhibitions...

    These look great, but I'm not too sure about the eligibility requirements..
    I am from Kerry alright, but the thing says that my family has to be of "limited means". Exactly what that means I'm not too sure, I mean we're not of unlimited means..

    Can anyone shed a bit of light on exactly what the eligibility requirements for the Reid is?

    Page Q3 of the following link has the official information in the College Calendar (assuming that it is readable for those not on the TCD network):

    http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/tcd-calendar-q-entrants-awards.pdf


  • #3
    Pet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    dabh wrote: »
    Page Q3 of the following link has the official information in the College Calendar (assuming that it is readable for those not on the TCD network):

    http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/tcd-calendar-q-entrants-awards.pdf
    'Tis.


  • #4
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    And the link says
    In 1888 the sum of £6,200 was received under the will and testament of the late Richard Touhill Reid, to found additional sizarships, or exhibitions in the nature of sizarships. The awards, which do not exceed five in number, are open only to students of limited means, who are not eligible for the higher education grant, natives of the county of Kerry.

    Those who
    (a) are above the standing of rising Junior Freshman, or
    (b) are graduates of any chartered university, or
    (c) have completed their nineteenth year before 1 May of the year in which they compete, are not eligible.

    Reid entrance exhibitions are granted to qualified candidates on the basis of their public examination results.
    Reid entrance exhibitions are tenable for two years. Exhibitioners have their Commons free, will be provided with a laptop computer and receive a studentship grant of €6,000 per annum (including fees if applicable).

    During the Senior Freshman year exhibitioners normally compete for foundation scholarships. Those who fail to obtain such scholarships, but are deemed to have shown sufficient merit (second class (first division)), may have their exhibitions extended for two further years; see also FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Notice of these exhibitions will appear each year in the local Kerry newspapers. Applications should be addressed in the first instance to the Senior Lecturer not later than 31 May 2011.


  • #5
    Ahoyhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Ahoyhoy


    thayes93 wrote: »
    my family has to be of "limited means". Exactly what that means I'm not too sure, I mean we're not of unlimited means..

    It pretty much means you have to be getting the grant at least. Ask the senior tutor's office, they run all that stuff. www.tcd.ie/senior_tutor


  • #6
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    Ahoyhoy wrote: »
    It pretty much means you have to be getting the grant at least.

    Actually it explicitly says you can't qualify for the higher education grant in order to be eligible.


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  • #7
    Ahoyhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Ahoyhoy


    Sir Ophiuchus wrote: »
    Actually it explicitly says you can't qualify for the higher education grant in order to be eligible.

    Ah...yes, the slightest amount of reading would have helped with that! Well these days it's possible to be both of limited means and ineligible for the grant, I expect the people who qualify for it these days are above the reckonable income limit but up to their neck in debt.


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