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Unfilled courses?

  • 09-06-2011 1:39pm
    #1
    Mooney..
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hey there,

    I missed the CAO deadline to get my application in as an undergraduate. Does anybody know if the college will advertise what courses haven't been filled and if it's available to apply again at some stage? If so, when?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    blubloblu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭blubloblu


    Mooney.. wrote: »
    Hey there,

    I missed the CAO deadline to get my application in as an undergraduate. Does anybody know if the college will advertise what courses haven't been filled and if it's available to apply again at some stage? If so, when?

    Thanks

    Email the admissions office? admissions@tcd.ie


  • #3
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    Its unlikely TCD will have any vacant places.


  • #4
    Gae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭Gae


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    Its unlikely TCD will have any vacant places.

    I'm aware of at least a couple of TCD courses which generally don't fill up. Contacting the admissions office is the best course of action.


  • #5
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    There will be no vacant places for TCD on the CAO,don't be waiting around for that.


  • #6
    Jammyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    Dont be so sure of that. As said above, there are some courses which don't fill often.


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  • #7
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    20 euro -says no vacant places
    :cool:


  • #8
    blubloblu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭blubloblu


    If people switch courses at the very beginning of the year, do they refill the place with a CAO applicant?


  • #9
    NeuroCat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭NeuroCat


    There are a small number of courses which never fill up due to unpopularity. The computer science, linguistics and a language courses never seem to fill (To the point where people are offered places by simply fulfilling the matriculation requirements), with only 1 person in C.S.L.L(Irish) this year I think. I believe M.S.I.S.S didn't fill in 2010. The best course of action would be to contact the admissions office :)


  • #10
    tabouli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭tabouli


    Does TCD ever actually advertise them as available places though? I think they just let in whoever has met the matriculation and then that's the points cut off and the course "filled" as far as TCD are concerned. I've never seen any of those courses on the CAO vacant places list.


  • #11
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    tabouli wrote: »
    Does TCD ever actually advertise them as available places though? I think they just let in whoever has met the matriculation and then that's the points cut off and the course "filled" as far as TCD are concerned. I've never seen any of those courses on the CAO vacant places list.

    Thats what I mean jellybean , for the last 2 years I haven't seen them on the CAO.


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  • #12
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    NeuroCat wrote: »
    . The computer science, linguistics and a language courses never seem to fill (To the point where people are offered places by simply fulfilling the matriculation requirements),

    Are you sure about that? It's actually just a really small course... It jumped to something like 550 points in 2009, so I doubt it!


  • #13
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    languagenerd wrote: »
    Are you sure about that? It's actually just a really small course... It jumped to something like 550 points in 2009, so I doubt it!

    The reason it jumped is because the points are determined by the lowest accepted applicant, who in this case was a girl who got 550pts. Whatever she got was going to set the points.

    AFAIK there are 5 places, but they never fill. Off the top of my head, there is one irish, one french and two german, but I'm not 100% on that.


    OP: You shouldnt be looking for whats free, you should be looking for what you want to do. If that means going elsewhere or waiting a year then do that, but dont just pick something cause its available, you'll likely just end up dropping out.


  • #14
    whenever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭whenever


    NeuroCat wrote: »
    There are a small number of courses which never fill up due to unpopularity. The computer science, linguistics and a language courses never seem to fill (To the point where people are offered places by simply fulfilling the matriculation requirements), with only 1 person in C.S.L.L(Irish) this year I think. I believe M.S.I.S.S didn't fill in 2010. The best course of action would be to contact the admissions office :)

    I think the entry requirements for both courses include a C3 in HC maths + HC Language for the CS + linguistics.


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