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DCU Computer applications

  • 10-03-2012 6:23pm
    #1
    4xl7anwqsoh1ce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Just a quick question about CA, Does this course become full every year ? Or has it ever been full ?

    My original thread


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  • #2
    Battleflag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Battleflag


    Course has always been around the 320 mark so I doubt it's ever been full but according to RTÉ there has been alot of international applications especially from the UK as their fees have increased significantly. These probably aren't for CA but no one will be able to give you a definitive answer until the end of August.

    If you do make it, I'll see you there in September as I'm starting this year myself! (though I deferred it)


  • #3
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    Always been 320? 10 years ago it was ~440.


  • #4
    polkabunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭polkabunny


    Points for the course are steadily rising, as demand for computing courses and jobs are rising. The points last year were 340, the year before were 325, the year before that 315, and the year before that again 300. One of our lecturers was discussing this with us this week, and he says he expects it to rise within the next few years to around 400 points again.
    The course takes in a lot of students in comparison to other computing courses. There were 120/130 of us at the beginning of this year, and I'm not sure how many dropped out.
    If you want to do well enough to get into the course, make the right decisions now about your subjects. If you've done your mocks, analyse your results, and estimate realistically what you could get. I ended up dropping two honours subjects after the mocks last year. One I did fantastically in at Ordinary level, the other I scraped past in, and I got in easily.
    Good luck with your CAO and exams :)


  • #5
    Stev_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Id seriously concentrate on your LC subjects and start gearing yourself up. If you continue to just brush them aside and not care it's going to carry forward to the next level, your going to get modules that will bore you more then anything in the world and you have to be motivated enough to stick with it and complete them. People say nearly all the drop outs in CA are down to people who didn't really know what they were getting themselves into, id disagree most of it was down to people being way too lazy, not showing up to lectures, doing half ass assessments and cramming the night before end of semester exams.

    Ask yourself this, if you can't motivate yourself to complete the first major educational exam to the best of your ability how are you going to motivate yourself to complete a college degree that could be the difference between you getting a job or not.


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