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THE REPLY DATE for the very first round of CAO offers has passed and offers for those applications have been processed.
The deadline was 5.15pm and the series of ‘Round A’ offers have been made.
Don’t worry, these offers don’t apply to the majority of students, but rather to mature applicants, applicants who have completed an Access course or those who may need to make visa arrangements.
As it stands, 8,243 such offers have been made with 5,194 (63%) acceptances.
The next round of offers will now come on 30 July. This is termed the ‘Round 0′ and again is more concerned with mature, deferred and grad entry medicine applicants.
Once the reply date has passed for these applicants, that being 6 August, all that will remain is for the main, and by far largest, round of offers which will be officially made on 17 August, with a reply date of 24 August.
The CAO have now officially released figures for what kind of subjects students are hoping to study.
So, without further ado, here are the statistics for what students have been picking on their application this year. These stats incorporate final choices made now that the change-of-mind deadline of 1 July has passed.
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As might be expected arts and social sciences dominate the choices for degree courses in terms of quantity with 26% of all choices, 414,000 of which were made. Business, science and engineering subjects are next most popular. In fact those four subjects account for 71% of choices.
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When it comes to first preferences, the rankings are broadly the same at the top end of the scale. Of a total of 70,006 degree choices, arts and social science account for 16,622 of those first preferences or 24%.
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For certificate / diploma courses, almost 183,000 choices were made. The trend for degree courses does not follow through here, with business, engineering and science courses easily the most popular for 2015. Arts courses finish in fourth in terms of overall choices.
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As regards first preferences for cert / diploma courses, again business, science and engineering are easily the most popular subjects. Of 46,978 choices made, these three account for 76%, or nearly 36,000 of those choices.
The amount of students applying for certain courses is one of the largest factors affecting how high (or low) the final points will be for that subject.
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Great album….. Happy days when we got free CD with the Sunday papers… If I didn’t want it I threw it out…. Same principles apply…. Well done to the Irish lads..
I think now is the time to call it a day. Don’t get me wrong I love an awful lot of U2′s songs but that last album was like water boarding
I couldn’t disagree more.
Their last album imho was lyrically their best since Joshua tree and R&H (2 albums that defined my childhood)
It is clearly obvious they are still relevant. They still want to produce original material (unlike some of their peers)
If they were to call it a day then I’d have another bad taste in my mouth rather like when REM split.
Tom, everyone to their own but its the live performances that are amazing. “Every Breaking Wave” is a tremendous song live and the emotion that’s in it is amazing. You should give the album a chance. Plus U2 write and play their own instruments too. A bonus
I’ll be honest, when I listened to their new album the very first time, I wasn’t that impressed with it. But after listening to it probably 100+ times since it was released, I now think it’s one of the best albums they’ve made. The lyrics are excellent and the stories behind each song are brilliant.
“Every Breaking Wave”, “Song For Someone”, and “Raised By Wolves” are probably my favourite songs from the album. Keep up the great work lads. Roll on the world tour!
Thank god it’s not free. I don’t want that shite on my phone
Their next album will be entitled “gift Horse”.
Sure poor Sinead is high on the smell of her own Bull poo ……….
At least I won’t have to go through the effort of deleting it this time.
Ohh Ohh Bono
Will it be in Dutch with English subtitles?
Will it be filmed in your new premises on the quays?
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/sale-of-u2s-dublin-docklands-studio-queried-by-watchdog-30671173.html
Will you be asking us all to give generous charitable donations whilst you and the rest of your tax dodging band members keep your hands firmly in your pockets?
Yeah because we know you and everyone else likes to pay the max amount of tax you possibly can. Idiot.
Yeah, who wants to pay the max tax possible? They pay tax here. The Dutch thing is just for part of their income. Not a U2 fan.
In that case we should all be permitted to do it.
And if we were allowed to do so.
Tell me who would keep the basic public services going here?
Bono continually claims that he’s Irish.
He even lives here.
He ponces around telling us all to give generously to chip in.
Yet he skives of when it comes to paying his own taxes and picks up prime property behind closed doors courtesy of the Irish taxpayer.
That really says just how much he cares for his countrymen/women.
He’d probably have to pay feck all tax here anyway, due to our low corporation tax policies.
Why not?
If they just bought 1 round for the country they’d be Heros!
Mine’s a pint lads, cheers.
Wooohoooo. Let joy be unconfined :-/ any sign of the money for the ebola victims, lads?
Sure somebodys got to pay to fix the door on his private jet!!! Ohhh no the profit he makes off singing to help the poor and the poor misfortunes with ebola will make him enough for a new jet!!! Somebody just please just kill him!
He doesn’t own private jet! Only leased!
Let he who has done, or tried to do, more to help make the world a better place, cast the first stone.
If your big thing was making the world a better place then why would you be throwing stones at people
Was listening to some Van Morrison earlier. For once I agreed with Bono
[Bono:]
Well tonight thank God it’s Them instead of U2
Sure Van Morrisson is a dick.
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