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THE CENTRAL APPLICATIONS Office is barely finished with sorting out round two acceptance offers for third-level courses yesterday evening – and it’s already thinking ahead.
The CAO is offering further discounts for early online applications for 2013. Currently, students who apply online or by mail (paper) before 1 February 2013 must pay €40. If they apply, online only, before 20 January 2013, they pay €25.
The fee for late online applications (before 5.15pm on 1 May 2013) has been cut by €10 to €50. Late paper applications – due in by 1 May 2013 – cost €80.
The idea, says the CAO, is to ease the burden of processing the tens of thousands of applications received over the academic year. In 2012, the CAO handled 76,716 applications for 43 Higher Education Institutions. And the digital generation showed themselves – 98 per cent of those applications were online.
Via CAO
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Not sure I agree with this. Wont this be an additional pressure on kids to make a very important life choice when they should be focusing on their leaving cert first?
Not really man as they can put a good few (I think 6/7) choices on the form and there is a “change of mind” deadline which is fairly late in the process too…
will they not gave a year and a half to decide by then???
from the moment they go into 5th yr they are being guided towards the CAO applications. not only this, but students can apply for upto 10 different college places. I think this is a great idea and takes away some of the financial pain on families who are on the bread-line. Hats off to CAO on this, great move.
*that is HAVE a year and a half not GAVE a year-end a half
*that is HAVE a year and a half not GAVE a year
Know what you want to do in life and get a discount…….
We only paid €20 last year for early submissions now it’s €25.
headline is incorrect. it should read ” CAO brings application date forward”
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