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CAO OFFERS POLICIES


Standard Applicants
First round offers will be made by CAO in August following the issue of the Leaving Certificate results. Each applicant will be offered the highest programme preference for which qualified on the basis of points obtained in the Leaving Certificate.

Mature Applicants
Offers for the quota of places will be made by CAO in early July. Further offers may be made later subject to the availability of places.

Defer Policy
An applicant who receives an offer of a place may seek deferral to the next academic year. Candidates may defer for any reason other than to attend another full-time third level programme of study or to repeat the Leaving Certificate.

Deferral Procedure

  1. Do NOT accept the offer in the manner shown on the CAO Offer Notice.

  2. Write to or email the Admissions Officer, Office of Academic Affairs, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Galway outlining your reason(s) for the defer request. Give your name as your CAO application, your CAO Application Number and course code of the offer your wish to defer. Mark "DEFERRED ENTRY" clearly on the envelope or in the subject line of your email.

  3. The letter or email should arrive in the Admissions Office, GMIT, Galway at least two days before the Reply Date shown on the Offer Notice.

  4. In order to take up the deferred place, the applicant must re-apply to CAO by February of the succeeding year, placing the deferred programme as the first and only preference on the application form.

Interrupted Studies—Re-admission
Year 1 students (having accepted a place through CAO) who interrupt their studies through the year are re-admitted directly by the Institute.