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Midwifery- CAO and UCAS :S

I want to study Midwifery at Trinity University.
However, I live in England and I am currently studying my A-Levels (UCAS) but in Ireland it is Leaving Cert (CAO).
Does anyone know the difference between CAO (Ireland) and UCAS (England) so I know what to aim for in my ALevels?
Thanks :smile:
CAO stands for Central Applications Office. It is the middleman between you and the uni, in this case Trinity. Trinity WILL NOT contact you up until the offers come out and you accept Trinity, THEN they will. You are a number in the CAO, and in Trinity you actually keep this number as your student number all the way through. No personal statements. You put your choices (up to 10 in level 8) in genuine order of perference, no matter what you think you're capable of getting. This is so important because you will only ever get offered the highest placed course you qualify for, you will NEVER be offered your number 2 course if you are offered your number 1. In the Leaving Cert (7 subjects), your results are sent to the CAO when they come out...who calcualte your best 6 for scoring purposes. (Leaving cert points). So, you have enough points. But you don't have the maths requirement (for example). So it's ruled out and they move on down your list to the next one and see if you can be offered that. The same thing applies to you only your results will be known earlier. If there's 5 people on the same points and there's only one place left on the course, they're put into random selection to decide the place. Depending on demand for the course, points fluctuate. It might seem like a harsh system but it's the fairest one.

Midwifery is a new-ish course. It is based off-campus, in the nursing building 2 minutes walk from the main campus. It's a cool building btw. I know someone doing it, she enjoys it, apart from early mornings in the Rotunda (maternity hospital). The points are 400, which is a bit above average but it's not that difficult to achieve. I'd say AAA/AAB wouldn't rule you out. You need one of physics/chem/bio, you need Maths and a language until at least GCSE level (ie. a foreign language).

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