Medicine

drunkenmunky

Im slightly confused.Im doing my leaving cert this year and hope to apply for medicine in Galway which is 570 points.Now trinity is 580 points.So if i put Medicine in galway first on my cao list and trinity second,and by random selection i do not get accepted to galway will i be offered a place in trinity??

carlowboy

If you're on random selection for Galway, you won't have the points for Trinity anyway.

drunknmunky

but if i have trinity 2nd even tho the points are higher is there a chance that i wont get offered a place for either?

JC 2K3

How the CAO system works:

1. You fill out up to 10 choices on your CAO form in order of preference.
2. When the LC results come out, the CAO offer places in courses to the people who applied for them with the highest points and didn't have the points for any other preferred course they may have listed above the course they're being offered.
3. If there are places left in a course and numerous people with the same amount of points eligible for them, places are allocated by random selection.
4. If there are places still available in a course after a week, they're offered to people with the highest amount of points in the second round offers.

So to answer your question. If you don't get the points for a course(or get offered a place by random selection), then no, you don't get the course. How could you?

1huge1

So lets say my 4th preference was the only one i had enough points for, I would definetly get it if I had enough points even though it was a bit down on my list

Is that correct?

Gangsta

yup.