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1. St Paul’s
CAO Application
2015

2. •CAO Application & Process
•Course Research & Choice
•Restrictions
•DARE/ HEAR
•UCAS
•PLC Courses
•Q & A
INTRODUCTION
2015

3. APPLICATION DATES & FEES
All Fees are non-refundable

4. Honours Bachelor Degrees –
Level 8 –HD
Ordinary Bachelor Degrees –
Level 7 –DG
Higher Certificates –
Level 6 -HC
CAO Courses
2015

5. National Framework of Qualifications
47

6. Honours Bachelor Degrees-Level 8
(HD)
CAO HANDBOOK page 47
2015

7. CAO HANDBOOK page 49
2015

8. APPLYING
2015

9. APPLICATION FORM Page 28

10. 2 APPLICATIONS IN 1

11. ONLINE APPLICATION
ON-LINE APPLICATION
●Part 1Apply
●Part 2Confirm & Log-in
●Part 3School & Exam Details
●Part 4Application –Courses, DARE, Grant,
●Online Courses must first be submitted by 31
st
January
●Final Course Decisions 1
st
July

12. CHOOSING COURSES
●Guidance Interview
●Internet Research
●Careers Portal File -CAO
Wizard
●Family, friends, past pupils
●Guest Speakers & Open Days

13. CHOOSING COURSES
●Values
●Interests
●Personality
●Skills
●Aptitudes

14. If you learn nothing else from this presentation let it be this...
PLACE YOUR COURSE
CHOICES IN GENUINE
ORDER OF PREFERENCE!
To do otherwise is a grave mistake.
ORDER OF PREFERENCE

15. •Students will be offered a place in the highest
of their course preferences to which they are
entitled (if any).
•Students are automatically excluded from all
lower preferences.
•Even if they have accepted their first offer
they may subsequently be offered and accept
a higher preference, if it becomes available.
•Round 1, 2…………Vacant places
CAO Offer Process

16. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Calculated from ONEsitting of the Leaving
Certificate.
•SIXbest subjects
•Bonus points awarded for Honours Maths
(25 points for D3 and over)
•Entry Requirements can be satisfied over more than
one sitting of the LC (except for Medicine).
•Some I.T.’s now accept and offer points for
Foundation Level Maths for certain courses.
POINTS System:

17. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
:
POINTSSystem:

18. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
•Students must meet Minimum Entry
Requirements before they may be considered for
entry to their chosen courses.
•Consult prospectus for details and information
before applying for any course.
•Regardless of the points they achieve, they will not
be accepted by a HEI if they do not meet their
Minimum Entry Requirements.
•Minimum Subject Requirements + Specific Subject
Requirements.
Minimum Entry Requirements:

19. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
-NUI Colleges: UCD, UCC, Maynooth University,
NUIG, RCSI, St. Angela’s College and Shannon
College Require:
•2HC3 + 4OD3 -English, Irish, Maths & 3rd Language
(Except Science, Engineering and Nursing)
-Trinity College
•3HC3 +3 OD3 –English, Maths & 2
nd
Language
-DCU
•2HC3 + 4OD3 –English or Irish, Maths
-I.T’sLevel 8 = 2HC3 +4OD3 English or Irish, Maths
-I.T’sLevel 6/7 = 5OD3English or Irish, Maths

20. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
Specific Subject Requirements
•Primary Teaching –HC3 in Irish
•Engineering at Level 8) –HC3 Mathematics
•Veterinary Medicine –HC3 Chemistry
•Human Nutrition/Dietetics –HC3 Chemistry

21. ORDER OF PREFERENCE

22. These are the applicants for CK101 Arts in UCC.
Theexaminationresultshavenotyetbeenreleased,sothese
applicantsareinnoparticularorder.

23. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
•When examination results are released in August
they are entered into the CAO computer.
•For each course the applicant has applied for, the
computer first determines if the applicant has the
Minimum Entry Requirements for the course.
•If the applicant meets the Minimum Entry
Requirementsfor the course, the applicant’s points
are calculated for this course choice.
•All eligible applicants are then placed in a list, in
order of academic merit, for each course that they
applied for.

24. Applicantsareplacedinaqueueforeachcoursetheyappliedfor,their
positioninthequeueisdeterminedbytheirpoints.Theapplicantwiththe
highestpointsisplacedatthetopofthequeue.Thepointsachievedbythe
applicantinreddeterminesherpositioninthequeueforeachcourseshe
appliedto.

25. •The admissions officers of the Higher
Education Institutions tell CAO how many
places are to be offered on each course.
•CAO then makes offers to the required number
of applicants on each course starting with the
applicant with the highest pointsand working
down until enough places have been offered.
How places are allocated

26. The applicants marked in green have enough points to be
offered places. The applicant marked in red has enough
points for her second preference.

27. •Should some applicants decline to accept their
offers these places become available in the
next round of offers. They will be offered to
the next applicants on the order of merit list.
•This process continues until all the places on
the course are filled or until all the eligible
applicants on the order of merit list have been
offered places.
•Applicants can only be offered courses higher
up on their CAO Course List

28. Theapplicantinredisofferedhersecondpreference,thehighestpreference
coursethatshehasenoughpointsfor,andshewillnowdisappearfromthe
queueinallherlowerchoices.PlacingDN201ashersecondpreferencemeant
thatshewouldprefertoreceiveanofferonDN201thanonanyothercourse
exceptCK101-whichisherfirstpreference.

29. Havingbeenofferedhersecondpreferenceshemustnowdecidetoacceptitor
todonothing.Ifshedoesnotaccepttheoffertheplacewillbeofferedtoanother
applicantinthenextroundofoffers.
Regardlessofwhethersheacceptsornotshewillstillbeconsideredforanoffer
onherfirstpreferenceifaplacebecomesavailable.Inthesecondround,one
moreofferwasmadeonCK101andourapplicantisnowatthetopofthequeue.

30. InthethirdroundofofferstwomoreoffersaremadeonCK101andour
applicant,whowasatthetopofthequeue,nowreceivesanoffer.
ShemaydonothingandremaininDN201orshemayaccepttheofferand
begininCK101.

31. GENUINE ORDER
Students do not need to guess what the points are going to be
for the courses they are interested in.
Simply list courses in Genuine Order of Preference from the
highest preference 1, to the lowest preference 10.
If students are entitled to an offer, they will be offered the
highest preference that you are entitled to.

32. Applications must be made by February 1
st
.
Consult CAO Handbook for full details.
RESTRICTIONS

33. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have early
assessment procedures –which may start as
early as February –and, therefore, must be
mentioned in an application in time (i.e. by the
1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant College prospectus and
websites for details. They will also be marked
‘restricted’ in the CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:

34. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
To compete for entry to undergraduate medicine
students must:
(1)achieve a minimum of 480 points (2014 = 520)
(2)meet the Minimum Entry Requirements and
(3)sit the HPAT Irelandtest.
Adjusted Leaving Cert. Scale –(Max. 565)
•The points and the minimum entry requirements
must be got in ONE sitting of the Leaving Cert.
•The HPAT test results is valid for 1 year.

36. INTERNET RESEARCH
CAREERSPORTAL
QUALIFAX
GUIDANCE ON THE GREEN
CAO
COURSE HUB
•Certain courses are Restricted. They have
early assessment procedures –which may
start as early as February –and, therefore,
must be mentioned in an application in time
(i.e by the 1
st
Feb.).
•Check the relevant prospectus for details.
They will also be marked ‘restricted’ in your
CAO handbook.
Restricted-Application Courses:
HPAT-Ireland:
•Health Professions Admission Test
(Max.300) (2014: 155 –230)
•Max 300 + 565 = Total Score Max. 865
•2.5 hour Multiple Choice paper-based test.
•Students must first apply to the CAO –
www.cao.ie–to get their CAO number.
•Then they must apply directly to ACER. This is
done online -€120 and includes test papers.

37. ACCESS ROUTES
DARE
DISABILITY ACCESS ROUTE TO
EDUCATION
HEAR
HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS
ROUTE
6,365 student have entered college via HEAR & DARE since 2010 ( 4111 H, 2254 D)

38. DARE SCHEME
DISABILITY
ACCESS ROUTE TO
EDUCATION

39. DARE –WHO IS IT FOR??
School leavers’ who have the
ability to benefit from and succeed
in higher education but who may
not be able to meet the points for
their preferred course due to the
impact of their disability.
Applicants who meet the Subject
and Minimum Entry Requirements
of the institutions to which they
apply.

40. DARE –WHO IS IT FOR??
Asperger’s Syndrome
Autism
ADD/ADHD
Vision impaired
Hearing impaired
Dyspraxia
Specific Learning Difficulty
(incl. Dyslexia)
Mental Health Condition
Neurological Conditions
(incl. Brain injury, S&L)
Ongoing Medical Condition
Physical Disability
Other Disabilities

41. DARE –Participating HEI’s
Dublin City University
Dublin Institute of Technology
National College of Ireland
Trinity College Dublin
Church of Ireland College of Ed.
Marino Institute of Education
UCD
RCSI
UCC
Cork IT
UL
NUI Galway
St. Angela’s Sligo
Athlone IT
Mary Immaculate
Maynooth University
Pontifical Uni. Maynooth
IT Sligo

42. DARE –HOW TO APPLY
Apply to CAO by 1
st
February 2015
Complete the Supplementary Information Form on
www.cao.ie by 1
st
March 2015
Submit completed Second Level Academic Reference
to CAO by 1
st
April 2015.
Submit Evidence of Disability documentation to CAO
by 1
st
April 2015.

43. HEAR –WHO IS IT FOR?
School leavers who have the ability to benefit
from and succeed in higher education and
who come from socio-economic groups in
Irish society that are under-represented in
third level.
Students who also meet the minimum entry
requirements and subject requirements of
the HEIs their applying to.

44. HEAR SCHEME

45. CAO CHANGES
•PHARMACY
•MEDICINE/ HPAT –YEAR OF ENTRY
•COURSES CHANGED/ ADDED/ REMOVED
•ALERT LISTS

46. CAO SUMMARY
•Read all of the documents and instructions
from CAO carefully.
QUESTIONS???

47. UCAS
Another option for students

48. Most Popular Degrees
•Actuarial Sciences
•Architecture
•Children’s Nursing
•Dentistry
•Diagnostic Radiography
•Dietetics
•Medicine
•Midwifery
•Occupational Therapy
•Optometry
•PE Teaching
•Physiotherapy
•Primary Teaching
•Psychology
•Speech & Language Therapy
•Therapeutic Radiography
•Veterinary Medicine

49. Tariff Points versus L.C. Grades
•Some universities use UCAS Tariff Points
when making offers to Irish students, some
use specific grades and some use a
combination of two.
•In general, whenever there is more demand
for a course, the entry requirements will
specify actual grades rather than UCAS Tariff
Points.

50. UCAS Offers
Colleges make offers depending on all or a
combination of:
•Junior Certificate results,
•Predicted Leaving Certificate result,
•Personal Statement
•Academic Reference
•For Example: L.C Grades (BBCCC) and/or Tariff
Points (e.g. 260 Tariff Points)

51. PLC COURSES

52. PLC –Post Leaving Certificate
•FETAC Progression Route
•A college route that is available to all students.
•Usually one or two years duration.
•Hundreds of courses to choose from.
•PLC colleges available all over the country but all offer
different course types.
•Apply directly to the college offering the course.
•Choose courses that are accepted for entry into desired
Level 6/7 or 8 courses in HEI of choice.
•Interview or Portfolio

53. PLC Courses
•Business Interior Design
•Administration Web Design
•Childcare Computers
•Animation Accounting Technician
•Sport I.T
•Tourism Nursing Studies
•Hair Art
•Beauty Laboratory Techniques
•Animal ScienceAgriculture

54. WHAT EMPLOYER’S LOOK FOR
Top non-academic skills
• Teamwork
• Oral communication
• Interpersonal skills
Top academic skills
• Problem solving
• Capacity for independent & critical thinking
• Logical & orderly thinking
Personal attributes
• Enthusiasm
• Ability to benefit from on the job training
• Flexibility & adaptability

55. QUESTIONS???