** The Official CAO Offers Thread 2018 ** (Read first post!!)

EuropeanUnion wrote: »

Best of luck I really hope you get in!

Thanks so much!! Ill let ye know! Ill just have to wait till 6am now!!

At 543 my daughter was well over for Nutritional Science In UCC - it’s 507 this year.

Jolaxxcf wrote: »

Do you get your offers on your email or cao? Cao won't loaddd

Cao..give it a chance!! It took me a while also..keep refreshing and you'ill get there eventually!

anyone doing psychology in NCI?

She could have got more than the cut-off points, and still be included in the DARE programme though.

Many HEAR and DARE students each year don't need the points "lift", but they do need the other supports.

@spurious: Agreed, if she can afford to take place without the support. If not, she's still in limbo, and probably even more on edge: she's been offered place, it's tantalisingly within her grasp, but ....

must admit the system is pretty slick. Offer available at 6, and letter from the cao received this morning.

Friend has an offer they are OK with, but there is one they would prefer to get in the available courses on the CAO website. What should they do in this situation, do you not accept your first offer and select the second one?

Any advice would be great.

westtipp wrote: »

My son is short 1 point for Business Studies in UL :(
What are the chance he'll get a second round offer, based on previous years second round offers?

Last year's points - http://www2.cao.ie/points/lvl8_17.pdf

Hope he gets sorted.

sue97 wrote: »

Last year's points - http://www2.cao.ie/points/lvl8_17.pdf

Hope he gets sorted.

Do note though that while the first column shows the final points, i.e. after Round 2 (or 3 if relevant), the second column is the MIDPOINT or median points score out of those candidates who were offered places. It doesn't represent a fall of 41 points between Round 1 and the final points.

Hulgerx10 wrote: »

Does a star next to a course indicate that the course is filled as people equivalent with the lowest points can't get in, and there won't be a drop in points for second round offers?

Or am I considering it wrong?

It means there were people who didn't get in at the cut-off quoted.

That said, not everyone may accept their place, and some places may be available in R2.

They will be offered first to the people who have the quoted cutoff points but lost out on random selection, so a drop in points, while not completely impossible, is highly unlikely.

username?! wrote: »

Friend has an offer they are OK with, but there is one they would prefer to get in the available courses on the CAO website. What should they do in this situation, do you not accept your first offer and select the second one?

Any advice would be great.

Postgrad10 wrote: »

I think she needs to make a vacant place application.

Lynchy747 wrote: »

I would encourage to accept this offer and make a vacant places application as well. If they let this offer lapse they may be left with nothing in the event the vacant places application is unsuccessful.

Spot on, it she's ok with her current offer, she should "bank" it, and apply for the vacant place as per the information here.

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I've also noticed there can be further revisions, even after Round 2? Possibly as late as October? It seems you have to wait a while for the final points to be put up on the CAO website, does anyone know when the final points do get put up? It's usually before christmas I think isn't it?

It's a good question, Thomas, and I'm afraid I don't have an exact answer for you.

For most courses, points won't change after Round 2, but for high demand courses like medicine for example, offers may still be made into late September / early October.

What usually happens there is that, say, Trinity finds itself with a couple of places after R2, they make additional offers to people who often may have accepted places in other colleges, but who then decide to transfer to TCD, which opens up places in the college they initially accepted, etc.

Realistically, final points for all courses will be known to CAO in early to mid-October, but whether they rush to publish them at that stage, I don't know. Probably not, tbh, I suspect everyone in Eglinton St. feels like they've just come out of 15 rounds with Conor McGregor by that time of year, and bits like sorting that probably proceed at a more sedate pace!

Should definitely be available well before Christmas though, and colleges will normally have that kind of info on their website for their own courses long before the new CAO applications round opens in January.

username?! wrote: »

Do you accept the current offer and open another cao application?

Nope, you amend your existing one.

- The Available Places application procedure is similar to the Change of Mind procedure. However, except for courses in which available places have been advertised, you may not re-order your original course choices. Log in to your application using 'My Application' and click on 'Add Level 8 Available Place Course' or 'Add Level 7/6 Available Place Course' as appropriate and follow instructions.
- Available/Vacant place course codes may only be inserted higher in your list of preferences than any offer which you have received to date.
- If you still wish to be considered for any existing courses, you must insert all available place courses below those you wish to retain.
- If you have already applied to CAO this year, then an Available Places application is not separate to your existing application, you are inserting courses into your existing list of course choices.

All the above and more at the page I linked in my previous post!

See my answer in your standalone thread.

username?! wrote: »

But how would I bank this offer they have already?

You simply accept the offer in Round 1.

Any offers of Available Places will be made in Round 2 (or subsequently), and work pretty much the same as if you were lucky enough to get offered a choice from further up your original list in Round 2 ... you either:

1) stick with the offer you accepted in Round 1

or

2) accept the new offer



Edit: ok, I think I may see where the confusion is stemming from!!

username?! wrote: »

Do you accept the current offer and open another cao application?

randylonghorn wrote: »

Nope, you amend your existing one.

When I said "no" I meant "no, you don't need a new CAO application, you amend your existing one" not "no, you don't accept the offer in R1".