CAO choices

AvAv

Level 8 Course Choices:
1. MH209 Psychology (through Science)
2. MH212 Science Education
3. MH201 Science
4. DC208 Psychology
5. DC203 Science Education
6. DC201 Science
7. MH202 Biotechnology
8. DC173 Physics with Biomedical Sciences
9. MH101 Arts
10. MH107 Social Science

Level 7/6 Course Choices:
1. DK781 Science - Applied Bioscience
2. DK783 Science - Pharmaceutical Science
3. DT212 Science - Common 1st Year
4. DT259 Biosciences
5. DK784 Veterinary Nursing
6. DT260 Industrial and Environmental Physics
7. BN025 Social and Community Development
8. BN011 Applied Social Studies in Social Care
9. DB575 Social Studies

Looking for a miracle after those mocks exams apparently :P

LifesaverNiall

ugh...

Planemo

Level 8:
1) TR071 Science
2) DN200 Science
3) MH201 Science
4) DC201 Science
5) TA022 Creative Digital Media
6) DT504 Film & Broadcasting
7) TR091 General Nursing
8) DN450 General Nursing
9) DC215 General Nursing
10) GY301 Science

Level 7:
1) BN009 Mechatronics
2) DT006 Mechanical Engineering
3) DT212 Science

Know it's a bit all over the place but I'm repeating so I'm not hedging my bets. (If only that rep from Maynooth that came into my school last year hadn't told us you needed a third language for science :rolleyes:)

xclw

heres what i have i kinda threw one or 2 random courses in! anyways i think i'll wait til the actual lc is over and then change

Level 8
1. Primary Teaching - Froebel/Maynooth (really want this cos i love the idea of moving to maynooth in 3rd year
2. Religion and Irish teaching - St Pats Thurles (not so sure about the college but i love these subjects)
3. Commerce and Irish - UCC (Yay Irish )
4. English and Religion Teaching - Mater dei
5. Business and Religion Teaching - St Pats Thurles
6. Commerce - UCD
7. Arts - Maynooth
8. Arts - UCD
9. Culinary Arts - DIT
10. Business - WIT

and if I do really bad in the LC i'm going to do a nursing PLC in enniscorthy, i would have nursing down as a choice but i don't do any science subjects

flyaway.

1. Languages, Literature and Film UL
2. New Media and English UL
3. Journalism and New Media UL
4. Arts UL
5. Arts UCD
6. English, Media and Cultural Studies IADT, Dun Laoghaire
7. Business Information Systems UCC
8. Business Studies with a Modern Language (Japanese) UL
9. Arts UCC

randylonghorn

LifesaverNiall wrote: »

just wondering if anyone would be able to answer this?..
lets say a person has medicine as number one and then science as number two.. lets say in trinity..
and another person has science as number one..

the person applying for medicine doesnt get enough points for it, but has enough for science..

and the person applying for science gets enough for science but less than the person who put down medicine as their number one..

who gets a place first? would it be decided on points?

Yes.

Take the time to read and understand your CAO handbook, it will save you a lot of confusion and stress in the long run.

JayEnnis wrote: »

I already asked this in another thread, but can I change the order of restricted courses?

Yes.

brian93

1. Science Education MH212
2. German/Mathematics TR321
3. Actuarial and Financial Studies DN230
4. Actuarial Mathematics DC126
5. Arts CK101

I'm confident I'll get my 1st choice! I don't have any of the other Science Education courses down because they don't offer both Biology and Maths together. Chemistry and Physics.... meh! I'm not sure whether I want to teach German or Science, with Maths, but the way that teacher qualifications come as part of the Science Ed course it's hard to look past it. Anybody know anything on HDip oppurtunities after Trinity? Better chance then say if I did the same subjects in Cork? (100+ points less in Cork)

40047002

I hope everyone is getting on well with their CAO choices. My head is telling me to one thing and my heart is telling to do another!! School really doesn't prepare you for this!!

Salty

brian93 wrote: »

Anybody know anything on HDip oppurtunities after Trinity? Better chance then say if I did the same subjects in Cork? (100+ points less in Cork)

To be honest, HDip oppurtunities are the same regardless of where you go to college. It's because of the recession that it's becoming harder to get a HDip. Also, just because the points for one course are higher in one college than in the other, doesn't mean one is better than the other. I'd put the higher points in Trinity down to the fact that it's in Dublin. More students there and all that.

NotExactly

_meehan_ wrote: »

I'd put the higher points in Trinity down to the fact that it's in Dublin. More students there and all that.

..& it's also the most recognized and highest ranked, not just because it's in Dublin.

paperplane93

1. TR301 French/Russian
2. LM044 Applied Languages
3. LM098 Languages with concurrent Teacher Education
4. LM040 European Studies
5. TR293 French/History of Art and Architecture
6. TR167 Classical Civilisation/French
7. TR295 French/Italian
8. DN541 International Languages
9. MH108 European Studies
10. DN500 Arts - French / Art History

*sigh*

Framble

Mine aren't very exciting....
1. GY113 Arts with Human Rights
2. GY111 Arts with Creative Writing
3. GY112 Arts with Film Studies
4. GY117 Arts with Latin American Studies
5. GY101 Arts

To clarify, I don't want to do Arts cause I have no plans for my life, I'm doing it because I want to study French and Spanish

Paauull

1) General Nursing - UCC
2) General Nursing - WIT
3) General Nursing - UCD
4) Social Science - UCC
5) Applied Social Care - WIT
6) Public Health & Heath Promotion - UCC
7) Arts - UCC

ConnieBarry

NotExactly wrote: »

You're in 5th year and you know your CAO choice and preference :eek:

im in 6th year, about to do my leaving, and i still dont know my CAO.
your lucky..

Ditzie

1. Optometry DIT
2. Radiography UCD
3. Clinical speech and language studies TCD
4. Primary teaching Froebel and Maynooth
5. Primary teaching marino
6. Primary teaching pats
.......

and after that i dunno

bobbymurphy

science -ucd
genetics -dcu
biotechnology-dcu
ant science-Dcu
biotechnology maynooth
chemical sciences -dit
could not be ****ting it more lovely it is

Orlagh123

1. Law and Business (TCD)
2. Business and Law (UCD)
3. Law with Economics (UCD)
4. Law and Political Science (TCD)
5. Law with Politics (UCD)
6. Law (TCD)
7. Law (BCL) (UCD)
8. Corporate Law (NUIG)
9. Commerce International - French/Spanish (UCD)
10. Civil Law (NUIG)

Hopefully I'll get my first choice! I know my points because I sat my leaving cert in 2009, and decided to change course; the points have been exactly what I got for the past 2 years, so I hope to God they don't change, I'd be sickened!! :eek:

cocopopsxx

Hi!
Erm, I have medicine down for my 1st five choices and I have NUIG after RCSI but now I wanna chane it to NUIG and then RCSI, can I change the order or not because there are some restrictions as to medicine? Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance!

GoldFour4

cocopopsxx wrote: »

Hi!
Erm, I have medicine down for my 1st five choices and I have NUIG after RCSI but now I wanna chane it to NUIG and then RCSI, can I change the order or not because there are some restrictions as to medicine? Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance!

You can change the order of restricted courses , you just cant add new ones

Cygni

CS = Computer Science

1. CS in UCD
2. CS in NUIM
3. CS in UCC
4. CS in NUIG
5. CS in TCD
6. Astrophysics in UCD

Daithi91

Just saw this post. And I would like to say, as a medicine student, if you're willing to sacrifice medicine as a college course for not wanting to go to NUIG or UCC, don't bother with medicine at all. You're clearly not cut out for it.

partyatmygaff

Daithi91 wrote: »

Just saw this post. And I would like to say, as a medicine student, if you're willing to sacrifice medicine as a college course for not wanting to go to NUIG or UCC, don't bother with medicine at all. You're clearly not cut out for it.

No, you clearly just don't want to go to two certain universities for whatever reason.

Pugzilla

partyatmygaff wrote: »

No, you clearly just don't want to go to two certain universities for whatever reason.

No, ask any practicing doctor and s/he'll tell you the same thing. You should want to do medicine over anything else or not at all.

If you're not willing to travel a relatively tiny distance to study medicine now, how the hell will you survive when you have to uproot your life every six months for training posts? If you want to specialise it's also expected that you will do some of your training abroad.

Daithi91

snicket wrote: »

Mine is all over the place!

1. art - ncad
2. biomedical science - ucd
3. medicine - ucd
4. science - trinity
5. science - ucd
6. english & psychology - trinity
7. nursing - trinity
8. medicine - rcsi
9. landscape architecture - ucd

What kind of CAO is that? My God talk about in need of help from a guidance Councillor. Basically there's no point in having medicine down as your 8th choice there because you'll get nursing and science in TCD before you'd get medicine. It's a waste of an option. If you want medicine, you need to actually want it. However, I envy your wide range of interests. :P

partyatmygaff

Pugzilla wrote: »

No, ask any practicing doctor and s/he'll tell you the same thing. You should want to do medicine over anything else or not at all.

If you're not willing to travel a relatively tiny distance to study medicine now, how the hell will you survive when you have to uproot your life every six months for training posts? If you want to specialise it's also expected that you will do some of your training abroad.

It's not the travel that's the problem. It's the university and the particular degree itself.

Just Like Heaven

Daithi91 wrote: »

You're clearly not cut out for it.

Massive, massive assumption. If they were willing to put down Nuig or UCC Medicine down on their CAO at all, then they're willing to travel.

Jaafa

partyatmygaff wrote: »

It's not the travel that's the problem. It's the university and the particular degree itself.

I've never heard but good things from all medicine course in Ireland. Academically speaking and socially.

Besides you know the old saying:

Q:What do you call a person who qualifies from medicine bottom of his/her class and in the worst college in the country?

A: Doctor.

GoldFour4

partyatmygaff wrote: »

It's not the travel that's the problem. It's the university and the particular degree itself.

Absolutely ridiculous opinion to have. If you do get your top choice (and I hope everyone here does) your going to end up working with doctors from other colleges down the line. A medical degree is a medical degree. A medical student in Cork or Galway is going to be just as qualified as one in Dublin or wherever. Part of a doctors job is being able to treat all patients equally, regardless of background. My GP studied at NUIG and I would not dare to swap him for a Trinity graduate.

No offence intended but the OP is right, you really should not be doing medicine with an attitude like that. A doctor is a doctor, regardless of degree. But what would I know, I`m just one of the little people from outside the pale.

partyatmygaff

malachyscott wrote: »

Absolutely ridiculous opinion to have.

Why is it ridiculous? If i'm going to spend the next five or six years of my life studying in a college, i'm going to want to spend those years studying in a college I like. I put down TCD Med, RCSI Med, UCD Med, TCD Pharm, RCSI Pharm, NUIG Med, UCC Med in that order. I'm aware that the degrees awarded are the same but each university is different. I would be equally happy studying Pharmacy as I would be studying Medicine. Therefore, I arranged my course list in terms of my preferred college and not by course as I would be equally happy doing any of them.

If you do get your top choice (and I hope everyone here does) your going to end up working with doctors from other colleges down the line. A medical degree is a medical degree. A medical student in Cork or Galway is going to be just as qualified as one in Dublin or wherever. Part of a doctors job is being able to treat all patients equally, regardless of background. My GP studied at NUIG and I would not dare to swap him for a Trinity graduate.

I'm aware the degree is the same across all universities. Everyone here seems to be under the impression that I am valuing degrees from certain universities more than others when I am not.

A doctor is a doctor, regardless of degree. But what would I know, I`m just one of the little people from outside the pale.

I've nothing against UCC or NUIG but I would prefer RCSI, UCD or TCD. Seeing that I would be equally happy studying Pharmacy as I would Medicine I have organised my CAO to reflect my preferred universities. It's not a crime to prefer one university over another.

No offence intended but the OP is right, you really should not be doing medicine with an attitude like that.

Who gives you the right to say what I should and should not aspire to be? It's no one's business but my own, I have every right to arrange my CAO in any way I see fit.

GoldFour4

partyatmygaff wrote: »

I'm aware the degree is the same across all universities. Everyone here seems to be under the impression that I am valuing degrees from certain universities more than others when I am not..

Sorry, thats the impression I got from other peoples posts. Sorry .
Huge apology for the last part of my post, Im tired after a long day ! Im sure your going to be a fantastic doctor ! Best of luck