HEAR orientation

ChildtoAdult

Can anyone from the 2013, 2012, 2011, etc HEAR scheme tell me how ad what happened in their college orientation please?

Jaafa

I've been on all three either as a student or leader and will be on it again this year. I haven't seen the timetable yet for this year but in past years it went something like this. You come in on the first day, we have a talk with the whole group of you's including the parents about the week. Then you get taken out by your leaders and put into your 'sub-groups' depending on what your course is. So for example Meds and radiographers would be in a group together. All vets in a group together, all English student together etc etc. And thats the group you're with for the week. You get assigned an apartment then which you share usually with 4 or so other students, usually from different courses. Gives you a chance to meet people from courses you wouldn't normally get a chance to.

Then in the mornings you're usually taken to a number of lectures someway associated with your chosen course. So for example, biology if you're doing science, or English if you're doing arts, maths lectures, note taking lectures and various other ones. It helps to get you accustomed to the change from secondary school as it is pretty different to what you'd be used.

Then in the afternoon/evening we usually have a number of activities that we do like tours of the campus, sports day, disco/karaoke, BBQ, movie night, stuff like that.

After all that is done you usually have the rest of the night to yourselves to get to know the people you're staying with.

As I said before this is my fourth year doing it and from the dozens of people I've talked to on it I have yet to met someone who did not enjoy the experience. It really is useful for getting to know your way around campus, meeting new friends, getting to experience living on your own, college lectures etc etc. You go into your first week of actual college and everyone is so surprised that you seem to know so many people already and known where everything is and so on.

ChildtoAdult

What course do you do?
What college were you he leader in?
Roughly how many students have done it each year?

Jaafa

1. Biomedical Science
2. UCD
3. How many have done hear orientation? It goes up every year, I think it was about 150 people last year.

ChildtoAdult

Hm can i ask did u get in with points reduced ?

Jaafa

Yes.

lauren2107

Jaafa wrote: »

I've been on all three either as a student or leader and will be on it again this year. I haven't seen the timetable yet for this year but in past years it went something like this. You come in on the first day, we have a talk with the whole group of you's including the parents about the week. Then you get taken out by your leaders and put into your 'sub-groups' depending on what your course is. So for example Meds and radiographers would be in a group together. All vets in a group together, all English student together etc etc. And thats the group you're with for the week. You get assigned an apartment then which you share usually with 4 or so other students, usually from different courses. Gives you a chance to meet people from courses you wouldn't normally get a chance to.

Then in the mornings you're usually taken to a number of lectures someway associated with your chosen course. So for example, biology if you're doing science, or English if you're doing arts, maths lectures, note taking lectures and various other ones. It helps to get you accustomed to the change from secondary school as it is pretty different to what you'd be used.

Then in the afternoon/evening we usually have a number of activities that we do like tours of the campus, sports day, disco/karaoke, BBQ, movie night, stuff like that.

After all that is done you usually have the rest of the night to yourselves to get to know the people you're staying with.

As I said before this is my fourth year doing it and from the dozens of people I've talked to on it I have yet to met someone who did not enjoy the experience. It really is useful for getting to know your way around campus, meeting new friends, getting to experience living on your own, college lectures etc etc. You go into your first week of actual college and everyone is so surprised that you seem to know so many people already and known where everything is and so on.

I applied for HEAR in UCD and got a letter in the post saying that I am eligible, I'm just curious to how it works, will I get my cao offer as normal or through HEAR? It says on their website that all those who are eligible must compete for reduced points places and I'm also wondering how one would receive a place over someone else who is also eligible?

Jaafa

lauren2107 wrote: »

I applied for HEAR in UCD and got a letter in the post saying that I am eligible, I'm just curious to how it works, will I get my cao offer as normal or through HEAR? It says on their website that all those who are eligible must compete for reduced points places and I'm also wondering how one would receive a place over someone else who is also eligible?

You'll get a normal CAO offer. Theres normally a number of places reserved for HEAR applicants in ever course depending on the size of the course. You will compete against other HEAR applicants for those places in the course rather than against normal CAO applicants.