a predicament...

Mocha One Sugar · 21-08-2005 9:00pm #1

ok...
i'll turn 16 next June on the 26th and i'll be doing CTYI but my question is will i be able to attend the following year (2007) if i have just turned 17 a few days before the course starts?
I just wanna know so that i know whether i'm a Nevermore or not next year *keels over at the thought of being a Nevermore*
can anyone help me?

Zounds · 21-08-2005 9:09pm

call CTYI, ask Colm, I've heard alot of cases of people being able to go with birthdays very close to the session. Though I think you could safely go to session 1 and be 16, though I may wrong.

doonothing · 21-08-2005 11:15pm

should be grand for s1, just dont get your hopes up for s2...

meeka · 21-08-2005 11:16pm

you probably will be able to go, my room mate last year was 17 before the session started

StupidLikeAFox · 21-08-2005 11:16pm

Prob be fine for both tbh

Outcast · 21-08-2005 11:17pm

My birthday is near the end of May and Colm says he might let me in for Session 1 so you have a pretty good chance.

Raphael · 21-08-2005 11:25pm

ColHol wrote:

Prob be fine for both tbh

Doubtful, with all the overbooking on session 2, they won't let barely qualifying people in

claire h · 22-08-2005 12:03am

There's always a chance. Session 2, not so much, because that's always full, but if there's room on a Session 1 course you may be able to beg and plead and get on it. Though Session 1 usually starts before June 26 anyway so the age thing mightn't even be an issue.

Garret · 22-08-2005 5:10pm

James Gough was just 17 going to S2 this year. Shud be grand

Feral Mutant · 22-08-2005 6:48pm

I have a problem like that but mine's worse cos I'll be 17 next year on the 25th and my Leaving Cert could clash with Session1. This year whenever anyone asked if I was a nevermore all I could do was shrug, American Pie playing twice at the last disco only helped to confuse me

carlowboy · 22-08-2005 6:53pm

Well don't get your hopes up for session 2 now....

Raphael · 22-08-2005 9:15pm

Depends on what subjects you're doing, and if all else fails you can sign out for the exams or arrive late. It's been done before.

It wasn't me! · 22-08-2005 10:23pm

I know how you feel. Colm was less optimistic about my chances though. Doesn't like me very much... My birthday's the 20th of June.

carlowboy · 22-08-2005 10:28pm

It wasn't me! wrote:

I know how you feel. Colm was less optimistic about my chances though. Doesn't like me very much... My birthday's the 20th of June.

Session 1 should be starting on the 18th of June next year, so you'll get a course guide next year

carlowboy · 22-08-2005 10:29pm

Raphael wrote:

Depends on what subjects you're doing, and if all else fails you can sign out for the exams or arrive late. It's been done before.

Could you really sign out like that for Leaving Cert exams, remember, it's not the Junior Cert.

It wasn't me! · 22-08-2005 11:37pm

Yeah, you can still sign out. I hope I do. I wouldn't even mind having to do session 1, just as long as I could go again.

Mocha One Sugar · 22-08-2005 11:43pm

yeah i know.... cos i'd hate 2 go next year, have fun but not think of it as my Nevermore year and then be told "you can never return!"
*satan eyes*

rainbow kirby · 23-08-2005 1:04am

I was in your situation back in the day when I was at CTYI... June 24th birthday here. I was turning 16 in my first session at CTYI (S1 00)... so I assumed I couldn't come back the next year. Treated that year as a nevermore year. The next year, I decided to chance it, even though I was turning 17 6 days in. I was told only to apply for session 1, and I got in

So there's hope for you

a predicament...

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