All Ireland Scholarships 2012

GaryB94

So is it possible not all county's winners have been notified yet? What does it mean by re-counts by the way?

Yeah, LC rechecks.
Not sure but my guess would be that the top 2 from every county has been selected, that's 52 from the 26 counties, which leaves another 48 for the country's next top scorers. But I'd say the 85 given out so far would include Northern Ireland as well with the A levels or whatever. I think the north are designated 25 places overall.

Eathrin

GaryB94 wrote: »

So is it possible not all county's winners have been notified yet? What does it mean by re-counts by the way?

Yeah, LC rechecks.
Not sure but my guess would be that the top 2 from every county has been selected, that's 52 from the 26 counties, which leaves another 48 for the country's next top scorers. But I'd say the 85 given out so far would include Northern Ireland as well with the A levels or whatever. I think the north are designated 25 places overall.

I doubt I was in Dublin's top 2! Wouldn't rule it out but I'm guessing at least 2 from the huge studentbase here got more than 480.
I'd say it's 52 + 33 further ROI winners, 15 reserved for re checks here.

Best of Luck PF!

Eathrin

Kind of half expected it to happen anyway, my mam wants most of my scholarship money
I'm happy to help out a little, but that's not what this scholarship was intended for imo.
Also this means I'll have no money saved to do a Masters degree now

Canard

Eathrin wrote: »

I doubt I was in Dublin's top 2! Wouldn't rule it out but I'm guessing at least 2 from the huge studentbase here got more than 480.
I'd say it's 52 + 33 further ROI winners, 15 reserved for re checks here.

Best of Luck PF!

My friend said it's actually split into smaller areas - makes sense really, it wouldn't be fair if only 2 in Dublin got it, because I'd say there's a good few in Dublin who might have broken 600 and qualified.

Eathrin wrote: »

Kind of half expected it to happen anyway, my mam wants most of my scholarship money
I'm happy to help out a little, but that's not what this scholarship was intended for imo.
Also this means I'll have no money saved to do a Masters degree now

http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/entschol.pdf not saying it won't increase...but me and kitty asked and they're still doing these in UCD, and BAFS is 590. So you might get more money. :pac: Let's all pray they stay the same.

Eathrin

Patchy~ wrote: »

My friend said it's actually split into smaller areas - makes sense really, it wouldn't be fair if only 2 in Dublin got it, because I'd say there's a good few in Dublin who might have broken 600 and qualified.


http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/entschol.pdf not saying it won't increase...but me and kitty asked and they're still doing these in UCD, and BAFS is 590. So you might get more money. :pac: Let's all pray they stay the same.

Ooh I doubt it, that would be nice but everybody in my course has the extra 25 and without it I'm just 570.
Good luck to you in getting it!

Eathrin

So has anyone received communication back from the trust yet since returning the form?

ChemHickey

Eathrin wrote: »

Patchy~ wrote: »

My friend said it's actually split into smaller areas - makes sense really, it wouldn't be fair if only 2 in Dublin got it, because I'd say there's a good few in Dublin who might have broken 600 and qualified.


http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/entschol.pdf not saying it won't increase...but me and kitty asked and they're still doing these in UCD, and BAFS is 590. So you might get more money. :pac: Let's all pray they stay the same.

Ooh I doubt it, that would be nice but everybody in my course has the extra 25 and without it I'm just 570.
Good luck to you in getting it!

Yeah- if it is for each single course, the guy from strandhill doing your course got 615.

Sorry Cian. </3

Canard

No Zach its not for the one highest, its for the top 10% I think.

ChemHickey

Patchy~ wrote: »

No Zach its not for the one highest, its for the top 10% I think.

Oh yeah, Cian, you're well in there... CIAN GONNA BE RICH.

Canard

Cian did I..ever tell ya you're my besto? :pac:

ChemHickey

Patchy~ wrote: »

Cian did I..ever tell ya you're my besto? :pac:

I'm raising my price per ride...

Eathrin

Patchy~ wrote: »

Cian did I..ever tell ya you're my besto? :pac:

I always knew you were.
Now which charity are we donating to?

Salts

Eathrin wrote: »

So has anyone received communication back from the trust yet since returning the form?

When I was talking to them on their Facebook page, they said the recipients are notified mid-September
I'd be absolutely gutted if for some reason I don't get it now, I've counting on it when doing budgets and seeing what I'll be able to afford.

Eathrin

Salts wrote: »

When I was talking to them on their Facebook page, they said the recipients are notified mid-September
I'd be absolutely gutted if for some reason I don't get it now, I've counting on it when doing budgets and seeing what I'll be able to afford.

I'm just a little nervous now that there was some mix up in the post:eek:
I'm the same, I'm absolutely dependent on the receipt of this scholarship.

chibihito

Got my official offer this morning:)

Eathrin

chibihito wrote: »

Got my official offer this morning:)

Coincidentally, I got my letter too.
I didn't know we needed to write a 200 word biography:eek:

chibihito

Eathrin wrote: »

Coincidentally, I got my letter too.
I didn't know we needed to write a 200 word biography:eek:

Oh God xD I didn't even notice that part :eek:

Dicksboro_man

A little biography is the least we could do

Does anyone know, do they pay us €6750 every year for the duration of our course or is it a once off payment (which i doubt)?

Eathrin

Dicksboro_man wrote: »

A little biography is the least we could do

Does anyone know, do they pay us €6750 every year for the duration of our course or is it a once off payment (which i doubt)?

As long as you're still eligible, you will receive payments of €750 p.m. during the academic year for as long as you are an undergraduate(non-repeating).

spurious

Well done to anyone who was selected - a great achievement.

Salts

chibihito wrote: »

Got my official offer this morning:)

I'm up in UCC for the HEAR orientation at the moment, fingers crossed it'll be there when I get home.... The anxiety's starting to kick in now..

Eathrin wrote: »

I didn't know we needed to write a 200 word biography:eek:

Oh yeah I saw that in other threads when I was checking out the scholarship a few months ago, it'll be weird talking about yourself like that but sure what harm. I'd write a book about myself if someone offered me €6,750

Salts

Did anyone inform SUSI of the scholarship?

partyatmygaff

Salts wrote: »

Did anyone inform SUSI of the scholarship?

You have to inform them. It's not counted as income though.

crypticguy

So do you inform them of a change in circumstances or something like that? Congrats to everyone else that got them!

Eathrin

Salts wrote: »

Did anyone inform SUSI of the scholarship?

How do you inform them of this after already making an application?
A simple phone call/e-mail?
It won't affect my eligibility for a grant will it?

Salts

Eathrin wrote: »

How do you inform them of this after already making an application?
A simple phone call/e-mail?
It won't affect my eligibility for a grant will it?

I'd say call them up anyway and see what they say. They might ask you to send in documents to break-down the financial assistance. At the time I got the consideration letter for the scholarship, SUSI had asked me to send in photocopies of letters about HEAR so it was handy, I just included a photocopy of the consideration letter.
No it shouldn't, you're definitely entitled to hold the grant and scholarship simultaneously.

eVeNtInE

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Diarmuid1995

Got offer this morning, filled in acceptance forms but obviously post won't be delivered until Wednesday or Thursday. Also, the part where it tells you to register online on the AIS website, am I being simple or can anyone else not find the log-in option?

Eathrin

Diarmuid1995 wrote: »

Got offer this morning, filled in acceptance forms but obviously post won't be delivered until Wednesday or Thursday. Also, the part where it tells you to register online on the AIS website, am I being simple or can anyone else not find the log-in option?

I cannot find it either.
I haven't filled in the forms yet but I will in the coming days, I don't think the deadline's for some time yet.

Diarmuid1995

Eathrin wrote: »

I cannot find it either.
I haven't filled in the forms yet but I will in the coming days, I don't think the deadline's for some time yet.

Next Friday according to the cover letter, let's just hope the log in magically appears when they get the letters Maybe they'll send us the log in details in an e-mail or something