A total of 6,163 offers will be issued by CAO today (5 August) to 4,820 applicants.
Round Zero offers concern applicants who are not competing with those awaiting 2021 Leaving Certificate examination grades, or who are assessed on other criteria. The applicants who fall into this category include graduate entry medicine applicants, additional mature applicants, deferred and Access applicants, and applicants presenting QQI FET/FETAC qualifications for consideration for entry to courses with a quota for QQI FET applicants.
The offers will be available to view online from 10am (on 5 August). Successful applicants will also receive an email and a text message (if they have selected this option) with details of their offer.
This year there were 3,950 Level 8 offers and 2,213 Level 7/6 offers issued in Round Zero.
The reply date by which applicants must accept their offer is 10 August at 3pm.
Speaking about the offer process, CAO communications officer Eileen Keleghan commented; “We urge mature, deferred, graduate entry medicine, and access applicants to log in to their CAO accounts today to check if they have received a Round Zero offer.
“QQI FET/FETAC applicants who applied for a course with a quota for QQI FET applicants should also check their account.
“Offers must be accepted by 3 pm on Tuesday next, 10 August. Failure to accept an offer by the reply date will result in the offer being cancelled” she added.
To date, a total of 14,071 offers have been issued by CAO in Round A and Round Zero to a total of 11,116 applicants.
For all other successful applicants, Round One offers will be issued on Tuesday, 7 September. Round One offers will be available to view online only from 2pm on 7 September, and successful applicants will also receive offer notification by email and text message if they have selected this option. There will be no postal offer notices.
The reply date for Round One offers is 13 September at 3pm.
Round Two offers will be available to view online from 20 September at 10am.
For more information about the CAO offer and acceptance process watch the video guide available here: http://www.cao.ie/index.php?page=video&l=102134759
