Students snapping up college places

Students have been snapping up college places after almost 50,000 received an offer on a third-level course yesterday.

By 3pm, nine hours after offers went live on the CAO website, 20,000 offers had been accepted, the same number taken up for the entire first day of Round 1 offers a year ago. The number had risen to over 22,100 by teatime.

With most of the offers made to people in areas like medicine, teaching, art and design, and engineering — being those students’ first-choice course — there was little to think about.