Transferring to Arts

curly from cork

Having been offered Early Childhood studies 1 st year. My daughter now doesnt want it . Is there any chance of transferring to Arts , she has plenty of points for Arts. Admissions office official line is NO . Arts is full. Should we accept Childhood studies and try to switch ( is this likely ) or should she reject her CAO offer and re apply again next year for Arts ? Any suggestions or advice welcome. Thanks..Demented here !

IHeartChemistry

If she doesnt want to do the course then she'll hate it. Seriously, if she wants the Arts, take the year out and re apply next year. Its her best option. I wanted Arts last year but got Biochem. Ended up failing first year, came down to do repeats and ended up changing to Arts with full fees for next year. If she 100% doesnt want it, dont take it. Wait for next year Hope taht helps!

Aoi

A friend of mine did commerce last year, but transferred to Arts in October. He could only do two modules and would have had to repeat first year again with fees, and do two additional modules (totalling to 4).

(He reapplied to the CAO this year and is paying full fees for his first year in Dublin)

She'd be better off taking the year out and starting next year instead.

rebel girl 15

Aoi wrote: »

A friend of mine did commerce last year, but transferred to Arts in October. He could only do two modules and would have had to repeat first year again with fees, and do two additional modules (totalling to 4).

(He reapplied to the CAO this year and is paying full fees for his first year in Dublin)

She'd be better off taking the year out and starting next year instead.

As Aoi said she'd be better off taking a year out and reapplying to the CAO next year. She'd be liable for full fees if she went and did first year of Early Childhood studies and then applied next year for Arts.

Do you mind me asking why she doesn't want the course?

Bride2012

A year out I'd say. I switched courses after first year and had to work two jobs to cover the fees on top of my living expenses.

This is why they tell you to be really careful when filling out the CAO and why you shouldn't put in courses that you can't see yourself doing as a second choice in case you don't get your first.

What was her first choice? If she wasn't far off maybe she'd consider repeating the leaving cert to get it but that may understandably be not that appealing.

curly from cork

Thanks for replies, her 1 st choice was primary teaching , she got the points but not the C3 in Irish, got a D1 . ( going for a re check ) . she was advised that an arts degree would be the better course for her as she would like secondary teaching if she doesnt get primary next year, she will re sit Irish in the LC next year.

Bride2012

You can do primary after arts and maybe even early childhood (ring to ask about early childhood) through Hibernia but she would still need the C3 in Irish.

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rebel girl 15

TBH, if she can get primary by either her Irish being upped on appeal or repeating it for the year, I'd advise doing so rather than doing arts and then the post grad or any course like the one above. The reason being is that she'll do four years of education training, whereas doing art, she won't have any teacher education training until the year she does the post grad.

I hope she gets her Irish on appeal, especially if she got the required points for the course, the fact that she got her points is great, and well done to her on that

curly from cork

Thanks everyone... a gap year with repeating irish is on the cards ! good luck to you for the new college year.