How to apply through the CAO Detailed information on how to apply through the CAO system is available from the CAO (Central Applications Office) in Galway or at www.cao.ie. A CAO application pack can be obtained from your guidance counsellor or from the CAO directly. Applications can also be made online at www.cao.ie. When making your application, it is very important to list your courses in genuine order of preference.
Who applies to the CAO: • EU citizens presenting with Irish Leaving Certificate or FETAC Certificate qualifications. • EU citizens presenting with other European School Leaving qualifications. • Non-EU citizens presenting with Irish Leaving Certificate or FETAC Certificate qualifications. • Non-EU citizens presenting with other Non-European School Leaving qualifications. • Refugees presenting with Irish Leaving Certificate, FETAC Certificate qualifications, European School Leaving qualifications or Non-European School Leaving qualifications.
Absence at application and offer stage: Experience has shown that difficulties can arise if you are not available at application and offer stage. It is strongly recommended that you should be at the correspondence address during the application process and in August when offers of places are issued. If this is not possible, have another person at the address briefed clearly on what to do. If you fail to deal with your application or an offer properly and on time you may lose the place.
Offer Procedures: Offers will be issued independently in respect of Level 8 and Level 7/Level 6 courses, so that some applicants may receive two offers of places simultaneously.
Entry Requirements:
Offer Acceptance:
• Entry points required for courses are dependent on demand. Recent points are listed on course pages and on the quickguide to courses. • We have set out the standard required for qualification in the course descriptions. If you do not meet these, you cannot be offered a place, even if your points are higher than the minimum. • In the case of the Leaving Certificate you may combine results from more than one sitting for the purposes of entry requirements only. • For European / non-European school leaving qualifications, see www.wit.ie/yourapplication
• If you receive more than one offer, you may make successive acceptances but an acceptance automatically cancels and supersedes any previous acceptance(s) - you may have only one current acceptance in the entire CAO system. • You may view an offer on the CAO website at www.cao.ie and accept online. • In addition, formal Offer Notices will be sent by post together with the necessary instructions as to how to proceed. • You may accept an offer either online or by complying in full with all instructions set out in the Offer Notice. Do not do both.
Receiving an offer: In order to receive an offer of a place you must: 1. Be qualified for the course, and 2. In the event that there is competition for places, you must attain the required minimum points. • We will offer places to qualified applicants in order of decreasing point scores and the minimum score will be that attained by the last candidate offered a place. • Decisions on applications are normally taken in August. • If an applicant does not indicate that further documents should be expected and/or if they fail to indicate the date by which they will be available, WIT will assume the application is complete and the applicant will only be assessed on the basis of the material to hand. • All offers of places will be sent by post from the CAO and will be available online at www.cao.ie
Maths Initiatives: • Bonus points will be awarded for Higher Level Maths. See www.wit.ie/bonuspoints • Maths Entry Exam is designed to assist students who have not met the required maths grade for entry into WIT. It will not provide additional points. See www.wit.ie/mathsentryexam
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Lapse Offers: An offer will lapse unless you accept it within a specified period, i.e. unless the online or paper acceptance is received in the CAO by 5.15pm on the Reply Date set out in the Offer Notice.
Registration: Registration of first-year students will take place early in September with start up of classes commencing immediately.
Deferring a place: WIT will consider sympathetically requests from applicants, who, having been successful in gaining a place in the Institute, decide that they wish to defer their entry until the following year. For more information on deferrals, contact WIT directly on 051-302000 or registration@wit.ie
Regulations: All applications, offers and registration processes are subject to the full regulations of the Institute which are available at www.wit.ie/regulations.
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