CAO Accept and Registration FAQs

You should accept online at (opens in a new window)www.cao.ie . Make sure you accept before the reply date - don't leave it till the last minute!

No. You can simply let the offer reply date pass and the offer will automatically lapse.

If you haven't accepted your offer by the reply date, the offer has lapsed. If there were extenuating reasons why you didn't accept, you should contact the Admissions Officer, urgently, explaining this. However, the place may already have been offered to somebody else in the next round and it may not be possible to accommodate you.

It may still be possible to defer if you have accepted during the first few weeks of term. You must contact us immediately explaining via the form on the deferral website why you wish to defer now. It is very urgent that you do so because if you're deferring, the place needs to be made available to somebody else.

After the last round of CAO offers, deferral requests will only be considered in extenuating circumstances such as serious illness.

There can be up to 2-days delay before acceptances are on our system because there are overnight processes involved. We email applicants as soon as their acceptances are loaded into the system.

If it is more than two days since you accepted and you haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder. Note if you have an iCloud email address Apple may have withheld it in their filtering system.

If you still haven't got your email, please contact www.ucd.ie/askus

Yes, you will be missing out on valuable information in relation to study skills and module choices. You really should try to organise it so that you can attend. If you can't change your plans you should report to the student adviser for your area when you arrive at UCD.

First check the email you received from Admissions telling you when you could start registration. If this time has passed, please check

• Are you using your CAO number (it should be 8 digits and the first 2 digits are the year.)
• If you were in UCD before you should use your old UCD number.
• Are you using your date of birth in the correct format? (DDMMYY)

If it still doesn't work, please contact www.ucd.ie/askus

Yes, if you merit a higher offer in another round, then you will get it, whether you accept this one or not.

Please let us know via www.ucd.ie/askus, quoting your CAO number. Please do this as soon as possible so that your place can be made available to somebody else. Please note you must use the email address on your CAO application.

However, if you wish to cancel your place only because you are accepting higher CAO preference there is no need to let us know - it will automatically be cancelled.

Note: after the last round of CAO offers, you must submit an official withdrawal form via your UCD online account.

Yes. You may not see the subject code on the CAO offer, but you will be automatically assigned relevant modules before registration opens.