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    #32
    subway_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭subway_ie


    Originally posted by Raskolnikov
    That's not true at all. Chemists and physicists have great job prospects at the moment.

    I was talking about the general science degrees - undenominated, where you don't really specialise in anything for 4 years, only in the last year. The first two years in those kind of degrees are basically just Leaving Cert science subjects.


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    #33
    V3003
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭V3003


    BESS


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    #34
    Healio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Healio


    i put down a random subject for degree choice three just for a laugh to see if i get it, i think it is Toxicology in UL


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    #35
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    Originally posted by Discharger Snake
    Really, physics? Tell me more. I knew I was going down the physics (and astronomy) route anyway, thinking there wasn't much in the line of work waiting on the other side. It'd be a pretty major bonus though.

    It really depends on what route you're doing. If you get a good degree you'll be going down the postgraduate/research scientist road. Don't think that you're getting a useless qualification either. They're always be a demand for professional research scientists, you'll have the potential to make a lot of money too. Depending on the degree an engineering route might be open to you fluid mechanics, combustion mechanics, etc. Same with computers and electronics, again, depending on your degree. I'm only going by what I've found out from my own research and talking to people though.


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    #36
    whambamthnkumam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭whambamthnkumam


    just wondering does anyone know if you HAVE to pick your first choice you put down on your CAO form? or can you pick one of the remaining 9?:)


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    #37
    lou91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lou91


    In general, its better to ask questions in the current threads, not resurrecting the same one from 5 years ago, just FYI!

    But to answer your question, yes.


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    #38
    pljudge321
    Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    subway_ie wrote: »
    I was talking about the general science degrees - undenominated, where you don't really specialise in anything for 4 years, only in the last year. The first two years in those kind of degrees are basically just Leaving Cert science subjects.

    Who told you that, the denominated courses you can apply to only mean you are guaranteed a place on the degree course you chose when the common first year splits up while the omnibus students have to compete for their places.

    Also first and second year science degrees go a bit above and beyond honours leaving cert standard.

    Edit: Damn Zombie thread, no point looking for a reply from something from five years ago.


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    #39
    Dubs
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭Dubs


    whambamthnkumam wrote: »
    just wondering does anyone know if you HAVE to pick your first choice you put down on your CAO form? or can you pick one of the remaining 9?:)

    say you get 500 points and the required points for the choices on your CAO are like this, in this order:

    choice 1: 540
    choice 2: 505
    choice 3: 480
    choice 4: 450

    now seeing as you got 500 points, in the first round of offers they arent going to offer you choice 1, likewise they arent going to offer you choice 2, so in order of preference on your CAO form they are going to offer you choice 3.

    you can choose to accept choice 3 and get into the course automatically or decline. If you decline you will get one of two options in the next round of offers. Eighter they will offer you a place in a choice course BELOW choice 3 on your CAO form, assuming the places have not already been filled or the very very very unlikely event that someone who was offered a place in choice 2 declined in the first round and it just happens to be you that they offer that same place to in round 2. Then you can choose to accept or decline and thats it for another year as far as i know.

    they send you 2 offers in round 1 and 2 offers in round 2. One offer in each will b from your level 7/8 list and the other offer from each will be from your level 6 list and you can choose to accept or decline eighter.

    sorry if i made this confusing


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    #40
    Peppapig
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    Oh jaysus I wanna do everthing. I just put Arts in Maigh Nuad down on its own.

    I wonder is that ok to do that ya know with all the hullaballu about filling doing out the CAO. Do they mean just apply or actually put all your courses down


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    #41
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Peppapig wrote: »
    Oh jaysus I wanna do everthing. I just put Arts in Maigh Nuad down on its own.

    I wonder is that ok to do that ya know with all the hullaballu about filling doing out the CAO. Do they mean just apply or actually put all your courses down
    Just apply. The only courses you need to have down by the first deadline, should you be interested in them, are the restricted ones, ie ones requiring interviews, extra tests, portofolios and whatnot. Otherwise it's just important to have your form in, containing whatever, and then you can change your courses free of charge between certain dates, so you can make up your mind then.

    However it's good not to leave all the deliberating until around your exams, as you'll have other things on your mind then. : p (That said, I don't think I decided on my course until reasonably late, was fluctuating between 3 options for quite a while.)


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    #42
    english4490
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    Corporate Law Nuig!:eek:


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    #43
    dragonfly!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭dragonfly!


    Dubs wrote: »
    you can choose to accept choice 3 and get into the course automatically or decline. If you decline you will get one of two options in the next round of offers. Eighter they will offer you a place in a choice course BELOW choice 3 on your CAO form, assuming the places have not already been filled or the very very very unlikely event that someone who was offered a place in choice 2 declined in the first round and it just happens to be you that they offer that same place to in round 2. Then you can choose to accept or decline and thats it for another year as far as i know.

    You WILL NOT get offered something further down on your form in round 2. This is why order of preference is SO important!


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    #44
    GlasnevinRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭GlasnevinRed


    In declining an offer you CANNOT choose to opt for a course further down in the list. That is why it's important to list the courses in order of your preference and not by points.


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    #45
    figor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭figor


    This is what I would put down on my UCAS

    That I was united supporter and I wanted to go to Man Uni or Man Met uni.
    but that I would consider going to Liv uni or ljmu

    If someone gave me a CAO form I would place it safely with my parents mortgage
    which is held at the local bank.


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