Over 3,000 Round Two CAO offers have been issued.
The Central Applications Office has sent out 3,428 offers to applicants in this round of the process.
A total of 2,507 Level 8 offers, and 921 Level 7/6 offers, were made to 3,197 CAO applicants.
1,270 applicants are receiving an offer for the first time.
Of the recipients of Level 8 offers, 1,089 (43%) received an offer of their first preference course, while for Level 7/6 offer recipients a total of 736 (80%) applicants’ first preference offers were received.
Applicants receiving an offer in this round will have until Wednesday, September 9th at 3pm to accept their offer.
Head of communications for CAO, Eileen Keleghan, advises applicants to carefully consider their options and to be mindful of Wednesday’s 3pm reply date by which an offer must be accepted.
She said: “Many of the applicants receiving a second round offer today may have already accepted an offer in Round One, and it is important that they take the time to decide between these courses and inform CAO before the reply date of this Wednesday, 9 September at 3pm if they wish to accept the new offer.
"Accepting the new offer will automatically cancel a previous acceptance.
“If this is an applicant’s first offer, they can choose to accept this offer, and this will not prevent them from receiving a higher preference course in a later offer round if they are deemed eligible.
"It is important to note, however, that most offers have been issued at this stage and this may be the only offer that they will receive.
She's also issued advice for those who have been unsuccessful in receiving an offer, noting the different options.
These include further education courses, apprenticeship schemes, reapplying through CAO next year, or repeating the Leaving Certificate.
"The Available Places facility also has almost 150 courses advertised, and some additional offers will be issued on a weekly basis from today until early October,” she added.
Applicants can check if they have received a Round Two offer by logging in to their CAO account using the 'My Application' facility from 2pm.
Successful applicants will also receive an offer notification by email and SMS text message if they have selected this option.
The points charts will be available to view on the CAO website from 4pm today at www.cao.ie/points
