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GAMSAT 2010...for discussion of all things related to this exam.

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  • #392
    robjmiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭robjmiller


    You're either in denial or have a score > 62


  • #393
    DMC87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭DMC87


    has anyone got the books that they are no longer using and wishing to sell them on as i have been looking on the net and they are quiet expensive and I was hoping to buy them for cheaper? thanks!!!


  • #394
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    Anyone know what the story is with accepting potential offers tomorow? If your second choice is offered and you accept it, are you still in the running to be offered your first choice if it becomes available at a later date?


  • #395
    ZombieMed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭ZombieMed


    Yep, you could still get your higher place after accepting. It's just the lower choices you won't get offered at all, if you're offered a higher one.

    Think colleges have information on waiting lists also so you could call if you think you might get a higher offer to see where you are on the list.


  • #396
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    The best of luck tomorrow everybody. Hope everyone gets the offer they want!!! :D


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  • #397
    gem2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭gem2010


    What is the story with finding out? will it be emailed or a case of looking at CAO website? I'm in work at 6 tomorrow!! My first opportunity to check will be at break time at 8 on the comp in the canteen in work but... don't really want everyone knowing what i'm doing, so would rather not be on the CAO website... checking email is slightly more discreet...? anybody know?


  • #398
    figs86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭figs86


    D-Day is upon us.

    Best of luck all, inevitably some people will be ecstatic and some will be disappointed. Hope things go as well as possible for all concerned, keep the head whether you're bubbling over with joy or feeling down.

    Get posting where you're going (and with what score so we can figure out what cutoffs might be) whenever you can.


  • #399
    moncai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭moncai


    Best of luck to those of you who get offered a place and start the course. I was going to wish best of luck to everyone but realised it's just one of those things that unfortunately not everyone who wants it can get in. If unsuccessful i'd recommend re-sitting again next year. I missed out last year with a score of 53.
    I have a 59 this year. Here's hoping!


  • #400
    Tazzle
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Tazzle


    http://www2.cao.ie/points/GraduateMedicine2010-Round-0.pdf


  • #401
    Don Keypunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Don Keypunch


    UCC 60*

    UCD 61*

    UL 57*

    RCSI 64


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  • #402
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    Wow we all seriously underestimated the cut-off points for this year anyways!


  • #403
    vrfcno7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭vrfcno7


    hurdygurdy85 wrote: »
    Wow we all seriously underestimated the cut-off points for this year anyways!


    That is for sure! The extra places that had been expected must not have come into fruition. The points of all have risen. Frustrating.

    Looks like I will be offered UL with my 59. Now I have a decision to make! The prosepect of moving down to Limerick doesn't appeal to me, but nor does wasting away a year of my life! grrr, fml!


  • #404
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    vrfcno7 wrote: »
    That is for sure! The extra places that had been expected must not have come into fruition. The points of all have risen. Frustrating.

    Looks like I will be offered UL with my 59. Now I have a decision to make! The prosepect of moving down to Limerick doesn't appeal to me, but nor does wasting away a year of my life! grrr, fml!

    Im the exact same as you. But I think we have to seriously consider that this kind of jump could have placed UL outside of our reach for good....Sobering. Take a place while you can! But if you really think you can do better than 59 by repeating then go for it. Its a dangerous situation to be in. Imagine the points never coming below 60 from nxt year on, so many of us would be regretting not taking a place in UL....


  • #405
    moncai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭moncai


    Yikes! Guess you can maybe look forward to the second and third round offers!


  • #406
    vrfcno7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭vrfcno7


    moncai wrote: »
    Yikes! Guess you can maybe look forward to the second and third round offers!

    Have the points come down much between round 0 and later rounds in the past, does anyone know?


  • #407
    moncai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭moncai


    Probably not, but accepting an offer of limerick with a score of 59 is the best thing to do so long as your first preference is higher on your cao form. That is if you are infact unhappy to get offered a place in limerick, i'm delighted!


  • #408
    moncai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭moncai


    Congrats everyone! 4 years time and you'll be close to calling yourself 'Doctor (insert name here'


  • #409
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    moncai wrote: »
    Probably not, but accepting an offer of limerick with a score of 59 is the best thing to do so long as your first preference is higher on your cao form. That is if you are infact unhappy to get offered a place in limerick, i'm delighted!

    See you in UL in September Moncai! :)
    Anyone know the start date for the term?


  • #410
    MicraBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭MicraBoy


    Got UCD on 61!

    W00t!


  • #411
    robjmiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭robjmiller


    Got first preferance UCC on 61, mightly relieved. Extra UCD places must not have materialised. Would imagine RCSI will drop in next round. Really feel for the people who are shocked by the jump. For anybody doing GAMSAT again, I've material which would be of use, PM me.


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  • #412
    figs86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭figs86


    Got Cork on 60.
    Should be elated (will be when it sinks in!), but just shocked that it means uprooting out of Dublin as points are WAY higher than any of us expected!

    I should be grateful I got Cork as 60 wasn't guaranteed.

    Right....now....WOOOHOOO gonna go do Medicine!!


  • #413
    hurdygurdy85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭hurdygurdy85


    figs86 wrote: »
    Got Cork on 60.
    Should be elated (will be when it sinks in!), but just shocked that it means uprooting out of Dublin as points are WAY higher than any of us expected!

    I should be grateful I got Cork as 60 wasn't guaranteed.

    Right....now....WOOOHOOO gonna go do Medicine!!

    Congrats on ur place figs86! I got a place in UL, chuffed but really shocked UCD didnt come down. Everything went up. All of our predictions were way off....


  • #414
    Edible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Edible


    hurdygurdy85 wrote: »
    See you in UL in September Moncai! :)
    Anyone know the start date for the term?

    Pretty sure it's september 1st, could be wrong though. Facebook group here:

    http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=332718603302&ref=ts


  • #415
    ejmcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭ejmcgovern


    figs86 wrote: »
    Got Cork on 60.
    Should be elated (will be when it sinks in!), but just shocked that it means uprooting out of Dublin as points are WAY higher than any of us expected!

    I should be grateful I got Cork as 60 wasn't guaranteed.

    Right....now....WOOOHOOO gonna go do Medicine!!


    Hey Guys!! Congratulations to everyone. Can't believe it I will be heading to Cork too on my 60!

    Figs I am a bit in shock too - I live in Dublin it hadn't really occurred to me I might need to move :rolleyes:

    If yourself or anyone else heading Cork direction wants to chat about loans, accommodation, becoming a langer etc please pm me!

    :D


  • #416
    moncai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭moncai


    Anyone know when round 2 offers came out in previous years?


  • #417
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Got my choice of UCC - have to decide whether to do it now and it's not at all easy!


  • #418
    cailin_fanach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭cailin_fanach


    2nd round offers are out the 23rd Aug! Which is a bit mad considering UCC term begins that day so some ppl will have to be ready to switch quick!!

    Anyone have any thoughts on how 2nd round offers will go?? :confused:

    UL term begins the 30th Aug - looks like I will be seeing you there!! ;)


  • #419
    stratford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭stratford


    Congrats to everyone who got what they wanted.


    Can anyone help me here- I not that familiar with how the CAO operates?

    I got no offer this morning.

    But I have 61 points and my order of pref is RCSI, UCD, UCC and UCL.

    So that means I'm eligible for UCC.

    Why havent I gotten an offer?


  • #420
    MicraBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭MicraBoy


    stratford wrote: »
    Congrats to everyone who got what they wanted.


    Can anyone help me here- I not that familiar with how the CAO operates?

    I got no offer this morning.

    But I have 61 points and my order of pref is RCSI, UCD, UCC and UCL.

    So that means I'm eligible for UCC.

    Why havent I gotten an offer?

    I'd get on to them straight away. There are loads of things that may have gone wrong along the way. Do you get confirmation of your eligibility from CAO earlier in the year? Does your online application confirm your GAMSAT score?


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  • #421
    bluewall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭bluewall


    cailin_fanach wrote: »
    2nd round offers are out the 23rd Aug! Which is a bit mad considering UCC term begins that day so some ppl will have to be ready to switch quick!!

    Anyone have any thoughts on how 2nd round offers will go?? :confused:

    UL term begins the 30th Aug - looks like I will be seeing you there!! ;)

    It seems that it is incredibly hard (and maybe a little foolish, if you're not in the know) to predict the next round cut-off scores seeing as most people were quite a bit off with their round zero guesses!

    For what it's worth, I can already see on some forums that a few people are apprehensive about having to accept an unexpected place at UL, so logically perhaps UL will be likely to drop a little. It seems that traditionally people are more likely to decline a place at UL than anywhere else and therefore the other cut-offs elsewhere may be less likely to fall, if at all (when I say traditionally I mean this purely by reading what others have posted on the boards in the past few years and old CAO GEM points lists).

    Out of interest - how did some people know the cut-off point scores by 2.30 am this morning?? (tazzle, don keypunch and zombiemed)


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