The Official CAO Offers Thread [R1 points linked in first post]

Hotfail.com · 18-08-2014 1:41am

This place will be some mess by 8AM.

loh_oro · 18-08-2014 1:42am

Irish Time E-Paper is now up

6thyearlife · 18-08-2014 1:43am

someone post please ASAP

woopah92 · 18-08-2014 1:44am

loh_oro wrote: »

Irish Time E-Paper is now up

I'm not emotionally enough stable for this news.

LoveChanel · 18-08-2014 1:44am

6thyearlife wrote: »

someone post please ASAP

Ahh I kind of like the suspense!

Peregrine · 18-08-2014 1:44am

loh_oro wrote: »

Irish Time E-Paper is now up

Is it really?

It is

I bought it but I can't seem to read it..

Ocdm95 · 18-08-2014 1:44am

Just downloaded Irish Times digital edition. Must have been uploaded early. Unfortunately full points list not included. Front page however says Science up in all Dublin Universities. Has anyone else been able to download it yet?

EmzBoBo · 18-08-2014 1:44am

Good luck to everyone waiting up to find out whether or not they're going to be offered their courses, I've been there (twice!) in 2012 & 2013.... my course jumped by 70 points the 1st time (missed out by 25, devastated didn't even begin to cover it...); ended up accepting my second choice that year (it was a nice course, & the people were fantastic, but it still wasn't the course that I'd been dreaming of since I was 10, and working my socks off for throughout 5th & 6th year)... went back and re applied to the cao in 2013, and the points dropped (1st round) by 90, and for the first time in the history of the course, there was a 2nd round, where the points dropped to 405, a total drop of 120 points! Got the course and I've honestly never been happier! Anyway, that's the long way of saying that anything can happen, & even if you don't get what you were hoping for, it's not the end of the world (even though it'll feel like it is!)... accept whatever you're offered (unless you know with complete certainty that you'd hate it, then don't!), you might be surprised by how much you end up liking it! Remember, there's always another way to get to where you want to be, even if you have to take the scenic route to get there!

One thing that everyone said to me after I didn't get my course the first time round was that "if it's for you, it won't go by you/ if it's for you it won't pass you"... I hated hearing that phrase that year, but truer words have never been spoken.
Deep breaths, you're going to be FINE, everything will work out the way that it's supposed to, even if you can't see it at the time, and not getting the course that you wanted does NOT mean that you're a failure!