70% of CAO places accepted

MORE than two-thirds of college places offered to applicants last week have been accepted, according to the Central Applications Office (CAO).

The deadline for accepting the offers made last Monday week passed yesterday evening at 5.15pm.

The CAO received almost 16,000 of the 32,000-plus acceptances on the day offers were made, but a flurry of activity took place on the CAO website in the final 24 hours. Almost 3,000 acceptances at either Level 8 or Level 7/6 were recorded between Monday afternoon and yesterday afternoon, although many postal acceptances included were among those recorded this week.