Points now expected to rise, not fall

ninebeanrows

Yup Yup

We were dealt a dummy.

The points this year are now expected to rise as the number of applicants to third level surges:o

http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/college-applications-surge-to-intensify-points-race-1053368.html

whassupp2

ya but there are more courses than ever so while some courses will go up, others will go down. it'll stay roughly the same

Corruptedmorals

Ah I expected that, the February figures were higher than last year's...but why would they surge now? Well my course is extremely steady so it should eh..stay that way..

Naikon

" If it Sounds too Good to be True... It Probably is"

The "end" of the points race is a load of crap tbh.

Naikon

More people taking PLC courses too which might help.

Naikon

*Bumpity bump*

I hope the downward trend in points for Computer Science/IT continues at least:D

genericgoon

I expect little volatility in the points market this year. Expect points to stay fairly stable.

Carsinian Thau

I predict points for med/dent/law etc. all to go up. Sciences should fall slightly and arts and business should remain about the same.
Also, points for primary teaching may jump sharply, there's a lot of interest in that (at least around the people I know) at the moment so I feel it'll rise.

jackjack555

I have a feeling things will stay roughly in line with every other year

*belle*

i think primary teaching and pharmacy will go up.

fionated7

please please please dont let points for primary teaching go up!!!!!

bebop!

*belle* wrote:

i think primary teaching and pharmacy will go up.

Why do you think these courses in particular will go up???!!??? :eek:

I have a feeling this is going to be a stressful week!! worry worry worry ,,oh woe is me .................

genericgoon

Dont worry about a thing
Because every little thing
is gunna be alright
So dont worry about a thing
Because every little thing
is gunna be alright

fionated7

Obladi oblada life goes on brahhh...
Lala how the life goes on...

genericgoon

This now the official songs to listen to before the results thread

*belle*

Out of all the courses ppl want to do.those two came up the most.

fionated7

way to burst my bubble!!!!!!


"the show must go on, the show must go on,
inside my heart is breaking, my make-up may be flaking,
but my smile still stays on"

Fuzzy_Dunlop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-6xV0uAVpk

Yeah!:D It's gonna be Ok errrbody

I have a feeling points for engineering will go up, although hopefully not especially for structural eng with architecture in UCD! I've heard of loads of people looking to do engineering though.

Limerick Dude

Primary teaching will definetly go up i say.

Hopefully the sciences stay down

genericgoon

Limerick Dude wrote:

Primary teaching will definetly go up i say.

Hopefully the sciences stay down

Well a lot of the sciences arent very high to begin with.

fionated7

yeah u tell him!!!!!

sciences r the ones that filled up the bottom of my cao jus to make the page look full!!!

GretchenWieners

ive accepted that i wont get primary teaching already. im interested in knowing what the new language teaching points will be like though.

fionated7

yeah me too tbh..

off nursing i go

genericgoon

you know its not over till the results come. stop jumping to conclusions.

fionated7

yeah, chances are they wont offer me a nursing place either

philologos

You never know you could have done better than expected. I hope everyone on the LC forum gets the results they deserved. Best of luck.

fionated7

dont say "the results we deserve", that way i wont get very many due to my laziness..

lets hope we get the points we want eh?

bebop!

Well here's hoping we get the points we "want"! Good Luck to everyone on boards!

Imagine this time next week we'll know :eek: scary stuff!

EdgarAllenPoo

Not to be bad or anything but you won't know until the CAO points are out you could have gotten the points for a course(based on last year's points) only for them to be realeased and be drastically higher than they were the year before.

fionated7

hence not opening results til cao offers!!!

genericgoon

but then youll be annoyed constantly about them and have no answer to get people to stop annoying you!