Letters coming in for interviews & informal offers. Post here! Mod note 1st post.

annacanna

MOD NOTE: Theres been a couple of threads lately on informal interviews and offers so I've merged the three most recent. I'd like everyone to use this thread for all info and queries on interviews, offers, etc so we don't end up with a load of similar threads.
Cheers - Paperclip2


I have applied to Sligo IT as a mature student, just wondering if anyone has any idea of when matures applicants usually get called for interviews?

scoob70

So have I . I went to the Sligo IT open day to the mature student presentation and was told the mature student interviews will begin around the end of April - start of May. What course have you applied to annacanna?

annacanna

i went to the open day and one of the current mature students told me she was called in march.
ive applied for early childhood care and education. what are you hoping to do?

scoob70

Hmmmm - March. Well I guess that might mean we find out if we've got a place sooner . I guess if I've not had an application or a letter or something off them by mid April I might give them a quick call. I've applied to do the higher cert. in science. I must be mad! - but very excited.

anfield bound

anyone know when UCD/Trinity usually call for mature interviews?

Shryke

I would love to know this with regards to NUIG if anyone has any experience. I wonder if most colleges operate around the same timeframe?

KERSPLAT!

Wondering the same about DIT. Got an email today (got my hopes up ) but it was just to confirm my CAO app and info on another open day

anfield bound

also, does anyone know how trin/ucd contact you to notify of an interview?is it by phone/email or through the cao account,or even old school post?

Lisa 333

Hi, I applied to Trinity as a mature student , got a letter last wk , my interview is in two wks ......... dental nursing course ............. any one got any tips , feeling nervous about it xx

Dores

congratulations!
I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...

anfield bound

Dores wrote: »

congratulations!
I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...

phew,thats a relief.one of the courses i've applied for is history & political science , hopefully the historians at trinity are just a bit lazy about getting 'round to posting interview letter's.

Izzie11

Anyone hear anything from UCC yet?

Lisa 333

Dores wrote: »

congratulations!
I've applied to Trinity for History/Sociology, Social work. I'm still waiting...

Thank You Dores,
I hope you get your letter soon..;)

beirne83

I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

Beirne83

Lisa 333

beirne83 wrote: »

I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

Beirne83

Anyone else doing Dental Nursing ????????:D

Feu

beirne83 wrote: »

I applied to TCD for Occupational Therapy, still waiting for a letter to arrive. Anyone else apply for this course?? Getting a little anxious at this stage.

Beirne83

iirc we got our interview letters around the 3rd week of march, with interviews mid april. So i wouldn't be surprised if you hear this week. Good luck, and let me know if you have any Qs about the course

beirne83

Thanks so much for your reply Feu. Fingers crossed I'll get it this week. I will let you know how I get on.
Thanks
Beirne83

anfield bound

heard today that the pfo letters don't get sent 'til at least a month after the invitations...that's sick if true,god knows you'd be clinging on to the little shred of non-existant hope 'til you were put out of your misery!5 envelopes waiting for me today when I got in...bills and bloody bank statements the lot of them.tut tut trinity college, tut tut.

Feu

be sure to call the department you have applied for, they may be able to give you some information over the phone, e.g. when they are sending the letters out, so you are not waiting by the door for the postman!

antkeane

So I wrote to TCD last week to ask when we will be getting our interview dates and stuff like that. I thought it would be good to have this thread here so people can see as people get informal offers and interview dates in etc...
Then we can kind of have an idea of how its all going. I hate waiting!!

(BTW I got this back from TCD)

Hi Anthony,

Decisions should be made on interview dates in the next couple of week. You will hear from us then, one way or the other.

So if you get an interview date in any college or a letter in the post. Write it down in here so we can see the dates you are getting them as everyone gets them. If we do!!!

grasshopper1

anfield bound wrote: »

also, does anyone know how trin/ucd contact you to notify of an interview?is it by phone/email or through the cao account,or even old school post?

Hi ya, I went for an interview last year. I can't remember but looking through my email I got an acceptance mail in late July. So it would have been between April~July. Have you applied to UCD directly?

When I went for the interview, I was asked to write a short essay about myself, I was really nervous as I much prefer to type. But she was so kind, and mostly it was about when I had last done any studying; how did I feel about studying etc

good luck

grasshopper

Larianne

Just to say from past experience, each department sends out letters at different times. I heard from Pharmacy (Rejection) a good two weeks before Physiotherapy (Offer). So if someone else has got a letter, don't panic too much.

anfield bound

I know a few people have gotten letters from Trinity already (not me!), UCD told me that theirs would be around now aswell...will keep you posted. Now back to my station by the letterbox...

Dores

hi. I just got letter from Trinity history department (refusal ). Still waiting for any news from Social Work or Sociology.

Now I am going to my bedroom to put my head under the duvet and stay this way until next letter will come!

grasshopper1

Dores wrote: »

hi. I just got letter from Trinity history department (refusal ). Still waiting for any news from Social Work or Sociology.

Now I am going to my bedroom to put my head under the duvet and stay this way until next letter will come!

Really sorry to hear about that. Have you applied to do any of the Access courses?

I'm doing one at the moment and I would really recommend it, if you've been out of the system for a long time, or not really sure if it's for you.

Bye,
grasshopper1

anfield bound

Right, I'll go first so! Letter from Trinity waiting for me when I got home today, inviting me to an interview on April 3rd for History and Political Science. Phase one complete! Hoping for another couple next week, fingers crossed.

anfield bound

Got a letter inviting me to an interview for History and Political Science at Trinity on April 3rd. Fingers crossed for a couple more next week!

Feu

great news anfield!

anfield bound

Feu wrote: »

great news anfield!

gracias! I've been so wrapped up in other courses I applied for that I semi forgot about this one... at least I have a week and a bit to get my story straight! Have to try and sculpt my web of lies into some sort of tangible rant!

Feu

Yeh definitely get on that, iirc, a girl in my class was grilled over why she had put a different course first --- so have your rationale all worked out!

peacock169

Received letter from Maynooth to come for interview on April 4th for Biotechnology. Rang DCU and they said interviews begin week starting April 16th, so on that basis i would expect letters, (invitation or rejection) should be 2 weeks previous. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone.

Heart Break Kid

Scared ****less but excited.

Danny911

Any mature students apply there? Any mature students currently there know when they heard back last year?

Just wondering when I will hear back from them for interview/aptitude test.

Thanks

Azures

Danny911 wrote: »

Any mature students apply there? Any mature students currently there know when they heard back last year?

Just wondering when I will hear back from them for interview/aptitude test.

Thanks

Hi Danny,
I'm also waiting, I think the MSAP results should be out next weekend- so I expect it will be a few weeks yet before we hear. Do they do interviews aswell!? I'm hoping to do Arts English &IT...This waiting is awful isn't it!

Azures

peacock169 wrote: »

Received letter from Maynooth to come for interview on April 4th for Biotechnology. Rang DCU and they said interviews begin week starting April 16th, so on that basis i would expect letters, (invitation or rejection) should be 2 weeks previous. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone.

I'm waiting to hear about English Studies at TCD- but got a rejection for the TSM at TCD on Friday as I filled in the supplementary form wrong and it was too late to do anything when I realised. Doh!
Has anyone had an interview or offer for English Studies?
Also had an interview at St. Patricks Maynooth already.
Any news about UCD or NUIG?

Danny911

As far as I know they don't do interviews, and it's based on an aptitude test mid April so I've heard. Not 100% on that though, maybe someone with more knowledge on it will be along to help us out soon

Yeah the waiting game is one I'm not too fond of playing either

Hope you get sorted though

Dores

thank You grasshopper1.
I haven't done any of the Access courses, But a good few of Fetac ones, which kept
me constantly in some form of education for the last few years...

Nothing of that was even close to History, so I understand this could be a matter...

I will still wait for 'refusal' from two other courses I applied for...

Dores

well done anfield bound!!!

anfield bound

Dores wrote: »

well done anfield bound!!!

Thanks dores, fingers crossed for you this week. Have today off, which is a disaster...been staring at the letter box since 9 am. Doesn't look like anything's going to happen today!

psycho-hope

i got an email today from carlow IT offering me an interview on either the 3rd or 4th of may

Heart Break Kid

Got interview offer today dor DCU marketing. Yay

ITS_A_BADGER

Im in the same boat as you guys, as far as i know they dont do interviews for arts at least i think its all based on your application and MSAP results i dont know to be honest

muffinn

Just received emails from DCU and IT Carlow to come for interviews for Sport Science & Health.

18th of April in DCU and 2/3rd of May in Carlow

CountryJoe

Recieved emails from Carlow IT and DCU also to attend interviews.

peacock169

For what courses CountryJoe?

Shryke

I'm still waiting to hear back from NUIG. It's the end of March, I hope I get something soon. I'm losing a little faith.

KERSPLAT!

I was at an open day @ DIT on Saturday, the head of transport engineering told me interviews for mature students (not sure if he ment his interviews or DIT in general) are end of April early May so Id expect to hear from them soon enough... Hopefully!

Heart Break Kid

muffinn wrote: »

Just received emails from DCU and IT Carlow to come for interviews for Sport Science & Health.

18th of April in DCU and 2/3rd of May in Carlow

same date as me for dcu

CountryJoe

peacock169 wrote: »

For what courses CountryJoe?

oops, forgot to say in previous post, its Multimedia

scoob70

annacanna wrote: »

MOD NOTE: Theres been a couple of threads lately on informal interviews and offers so I've merged the three most recent. I'd like everyone to use this thread for all info and queries on interviews, offers, etc so we don't end up with a load of similar threads.
Cheers - Paperclip2


I have applied to Sligo IT as a mature student, just wondering if anyone has any idea of when matures applicants usually get called for interviews?

Spoke to Sligo IT today - mature student letters go out in the next week or 2. Fingers crossed .

GrandBlaa

Email from DCU today calling me for interview (Language & Translation Degree)

However, they also advise: Please note that you should expect part of the interview to be conducted in your foreign language(s). You will also be given a short language competence test after your interview.

I certainly wasn't expecting that! Has anybody any info on what the above test is like or how stringent they are during the interview?