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Leaving Cert 2012-2013 OT Thread Part 2
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You will NEVER be offered a choice lower down your list of preferences than you were offered in a previous offer in the CAO!!11Charlie11 wrote: »If you get offered your first choice on the CAO do you have to accept it or can you u wait to get your 2nd or 3rd offer? I should probably know alll this :pac:
You may (if for instance you were offered your second or third choice or whatever) be lucky enough to be offered something HIGHER on your list in a subsequent round, but NEVER lower.
READ THIS!!!
Vito Corleone wrote: »Yeah you have to accept it. Randy's going to go mad when he sees that!
You know me so well!I can just imagine Randy sitting there contemplating to figure out if he wants to ban you or beat you with a shtick :pac: 0 -
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Put them down in the order you WANT them, and don't worry too much about points, realistically you never know what will go up or down.
One of the most annoying things that we see here each year is someone saying "Oh, I really wanted X, but I was SURE I wouldn't get the points, so I put it down at number 3 and put Y at number 1 coz it's always been much lower points ... but now I have the points for X, but of course I've been offered Y and I won't be offered X!!"
Another one is "I wanted X, so I put it at Number 1, but I put Z down at number 2 to please the mammy ... and I just missed X by 5 points, and now I'm stuck with Z which I have no interest in!! (Mammy's happy though!!
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That said, it's no harm having a banker in there lower down, especially if you're aiming for fairly high points courses ... a banker being one likely to have lower points, but from which you might be able to transfer to your desired course if you do well in First Year OR could do a Postgrad out of which would get you to the same goal, etc.
Mind you, the Level 6 / 7 list these days often functions as a banker list in its own way.0 -
Well to clarify its
Galway ~ 415 points
DIT ~ 400 points
But come to think of it I could stick in UCD (~ 470) as a second as long as it wont affect Galway.
And by stick I mean I was genuinely interested in UCD but the fear griped me that I misunderstood the system an would loose Galway.
I grasped the concept of more points = better course being blatently untrue and then my safe zone is NUIM down in the 300 zone. Then it goes on to level 7 which are painfully limited for Computer courses.
Sigh. And then I check DCU's computer course and I see what cutting edge behemoth PCs they have to work with
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randylonghorn wrote: »Nope, if you get the points (and minimum requirements obviously) for your number 1, you will get it ... simple as. What's lower down the list won't matter.0
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randylonghorn wrote: »Nope, if you get the points (and minimum requirements obviously) for your number 1, you will get it ... simple as. What's lower down the list won't matter.
What about the whole random selection thing?
can you miss out on your course even if you get extra points?? 0 -
Is this some type of new project maths question?randylonghorn wrote: »Put them down in the order you WANT them, and don't worry too much about points, realistically you never know what will go up or down.
One of the most annoying things that we see here each year is someone saying "Oh, I really wanted X, but I was SURE I wouldn't get the points, so I put it down at number 3 and put Y at number 1 coz it's always been much lower points ... but now I have the points for X, but of course I've been offered Y and I won't be offered X!!"
Another one is "I wanted X, so I put it at Number 1, but I put Z down at number 2 to please the mammy ... and I just missed X by 5 points, and now I'm stuck with Z which I have no interest in!! (Mammy's happy though!! )" 0 -
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Nope, random selection only come into play if they have a number of people at the same points, and not enough places for them all, so there is no way you can go out on random selection if you have extra points (by which I assume you mean higher points than the cutoff).11Charlie11 wrote: »What about the whole random selection thing? can you miss out on your course even if you get extra points??
Say they have 200 places to allocate ...
The CAO computer will rank all applicants who have the minimum requirements in order by points, and start allocating places.
So, Mary has 625 points, she gets the first place.
Bridie and Paddy both have 590 points, they get the next two places, and so on ...
Sooo ... it has allocated places to all those with 410 points or over, so it moves to look at those with 405 points.
It now has 22 people on 405 points with only 16 places left. THEN it moves to random selection to allocate that last 16 places ... but only then.
D'ya follow me?
-.-Derpington95 wrote: »Is this some type of new project maths question?
Banned!!0 -
randylonghorn wrote: »Nope, random selection only come into play if they have a number of people at the same points, and not enough places for them all, so there is no way you can go out on random selection if you have extra points (by which I assume you mean higher points than the cutoff).
Say they have 200 places to allocate ...
The CAO computer will rank all applicants who have the minimum requirements in order by points, and start allocating places.
So, Mary has 625 points, she gets the first place.
Bridie and Paddy both have 590 points, they get the next two places, and so on ...
Sooo ... it has allocated places to all those with 410 points or over, so it moves to look at those with 405 points.
It now has 22 people on 405 points with only 16 places left. THEN it moves to random selection to allocate that last 16 places ... but only then.
D'ya follow me?
Nobody follows you. You're no sheperd. We're no sheep. Get over yourself.0 -
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