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THERE HAVE BEEN more than 21,000 CAO offers accepted online today.
By 9am this morning, almost 10,000 applicants had accepted a college place, a number which had more than doubled by this evening.
Joseph O’Grady, Operations Manager of the CAO outlined the numbers:
Today, 49,862 applicants received an offer in the first round. The volume of top preference choices (1, 2, 3) is high at about 77 per cent for level 8 and 95 per cent for level 7/6. In 2011, 75 per cent received a top three choice for level 8 and 94 per cent for level 7/6.
He said that the site was very busy this morning “with a record number of acceptances in the early morning”.
By 9am 9,186 applicants had accepted a place in college, up from 8,406 during the same time last year. Almost 21,639 online acceptances were recorded by 5pm.
By comparison, in 2011 there were 21,000 acceptances by the end of the first day.
Applicants have until Monday 27 August at 5.15 pm to accept their offer, which can be accepted either online or by post, not both.
Those who did not receive an offer in round one will get an email and postal notification confirming their status. Round two offers will be available from 30 August.
From tomorrow, the ‘available places’ facility will open on the CAO website.
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Thanks be to God for channel choice.
That’s me back to my Friday night pub visit so…..
How that muck is still being broadcast is baffling, but hey it’s ARTE after all.
@Gavin Linden: exactly
BRING BACK TOMMY TIERNAN
@pat seery: The best show they have.
@pat seery: we can hear you.
Nothing like snuggling up on a Friday night at 9.30 to watch anything but the late late.
This year really is a washout with this tripe on and our license fee paying the sticks wages. Thank god for sky and Netflix.
I suppose Ryan will be giving us another sermon tonight.
It’s Netflix for me
Ah yes the late late show moaners are back after summer hibernation. Ye weren’t missed
I won’t be watching that rubbish I will be out for a pint
Anybody but Tubridy..
I’ll literally watch anything else – even paint drying on a wall would hold more interest and that is not an exaggeration.
My partner says DANNY from The Script is a Ride.
Woeful show and they continue to get away with it, a bit like Sophie’s murderer I suppose. Ryan – he is talented in many ways – is not the right person to present this, and they need to sack the editorial team who choose the guests / topics. I do hope the appeal from Sophie’s son gets some results and some good comes out of this.
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