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theworm2345
09/12/2007, 6:35 PM
Do you have to apply or does everyone get in? I'm thinking about applying to UCD, though I'm not sure how it would work
superfrank
09/12/2007, 6:37 PM
http://www.cao.ie/

Best place to check.
nui-harp
09/12/2007, 6:49 PM
Do you have to apply or does everyone get in? I'm thinking about applying to UCD, though I'm not sure how it would work

Are u over 23? Mature student application is the same only extra needs to be done and probably an interview.
theworm2345
09/12/2007, 7:05 PM
Are u over 23? Mature student application is the same only extra needs to be done and probably an interview.
17 :ball:
beautifulrock
09/12/2007, 7:33 PM
Do you have to apply or does everyone get in? I'm thinking about applying to UCD, though I'm not sure how it would work

Do you have a careers advice person at your school. Speak to them....asap
MojoPin
09/12/2007, 8:07 PM
colleges in ireland are free.... thats the major draw yank.... if you have a choice for college city go to Galway best student city there is.... pm me if ya want help with anything u wanna know or having trouble with.
osarusan
10/12/2007, 1:34 AM
colleges in ireland are free.... thats the major draw yank.... if you have a choice for college city go to Galway best student city there is.... pm me if ya want help with anything u wanna know or having trouble with.

I'm pretty sure they're not free for him, as he's not an EU citizen. He'd have to pay quite a lot.


http://www.ucd.ie/international/helpadvice5.htm

At undergraduate degree level, the Irish Government pays tuition fees to the University on behalf of EU students registered at UCD for full-time undergraduate degree programmes (of minimum two years' duration) who meet all the following criteria:

I couldn't find the UCD fees for international students, but I'm sure they are high.

In fact, being an EU citizen alone is not enough - there are various other criteria, one of which stipulates that you must be resident in the EU for 3 of the 5 years prior to starting University. Even though I'm an Irish citizen, born and raised, that would rule me out.
theworm2345
10/12/2007, 5:10 AM
Well it doesn't look like I will be applying, hopefully a semester (or more) abroad though :)
paul_oshea
10/12/2007, 10:07 AM
colleges in ireland are free.... thats the major draw yank.... if you have a choice for college city go to Galway best student city there is.... pm me if ya want help with anything u wanna know or having trouble with.

No they are not, thats only for irish students......and its about 1200 euro a year now anyway in that stupid "non-college-fee" fee.
MojoPin
10/12/2007, 11:16 AM
my cousin is doing a year in trinity starting in the summer and its as free as my college fees..... her parents are both irish by birth and raised here
Lionel Ritchie
10/12/2007, 3:07 PM
if you have a choice for college city go to Galway best student city there is.....
Christ you'll have him going to Iceland or Cuba on his holidays next. Go where the course that suits you best is run.
osarusan
10/12/2007, 3:17 PM
my cousin is doing a year in trinity starting in the summer and its as free as my college fees..... her parents are both irish by birth and raised here
is your cousin Irish, born and raised? Or has she lived in Ireland for most of the previous 5/6 years?