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Disability Access Route to Education (DARE)

How do I apply?

You must apply via CAO no later than 1 February of proposed year of entry.

In addition, you will have to submit supporting documents to show your eligibility for DARE by 15 March.

Please see  the (opens in a new window)Access College website for details of the required documents.

If you are deemed DARE eligible you will be considered for a DARE place in UCD if you meet the following minimum admissions requirements.


What are the minimum admission requirements?

  • You must have a minimum of 300 points
    (for DN400 Medicine minimum is 480 points and minimum HPAT is 150)
  • You must have met all the entry requirementsfor the course. (DARE Applicants attention is also drawn to the Student Fitness to Practice Policy).
  • You must be within 20% of the points required (e.g. if the cut-off is 500 you must have at least 400 points)

If I meet these will I definitely be offered a place?

Not necessarily. We have a target number of places to offer to eligible  DARE applicants  in most courses. This means that, admission is competitive if there are more eligible DARE/HEAR applicants, who meet the minimum admission requirements, than places available. For some courses, the lowest DARE offer has been close to the standard cut-off. As an indication, the average minimum score at which offers were made previously are shown below.

Note: as with all cut-off points the minimum can vary significantly from year-to-year

Priority Groups: As stated in the handbook on the (opens in a new window)Access College website, priority is given to DARE eligible applicants with physical and sensory disabilities and those who are both DARE and HEAR eligible who meet the minimum requirements outlined above. Any places remaining are assigned eligible DARE and HEAR on points ranking.

In the table below # no eligible applicants in the category or the quota was filled with applicants from the priority groups. Points for those admitted from the priority groups may be lower than the average shown below as they are not included in the averages.

CAO Code Title  Target Places 2024 Average Lowest Offer
2021-23
Architecture
2
554
Landscape Architecture
2
421
City Planning and Environmental Policy
2
416
Engineering
25
454
Science
30
460
Computer Science
6 488
Actuarial and Financial Studies
3
567
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Sustainability
5 454
Agricultural Science
19 335
Food Science
4 433
Human Nutrition
2 507
Veterinary Medicine (Undergraduate Entry)
4
577
N/A graduate entry route
Veterinary Nursing
2
493
Medicine (Undergraduate Entry)
5 721
N/A graduate entry route
Radiography
15 506
Radiography (Graduate Entry)
N/A graduate entry route
Physiotherapy
2
548
Health & Performance Science
3 507
Sport & Exercise Management
3 449
Biomedical, Health and Life Sciences
1
#
General Nursing
7
396
Children’s and General Nursing (Integrated)
2
491
Midwifery
1
486
Mental Health Nursing
1
380
Joint Honours
30 313
Humanities
23 364
Modern Languages
2
330
Law
10 507
Business and Law
8
509
Criminology with Psychology
3
488
Commerce
10
505
Commerce International
5
487
Economics and Finance
1
607
Social Sciences
50
370
Economics
3 451
Psychology
5 548
Social Policy and Sociology
7
334
Education
3
367

* All applicants with a score greater than this were offered, but it was not possible to offer to all applicants with this score and random selection was applied.

 Please note, due to GDPR constraints we cannot give the minimum points for any year as this could potentially identify an individual applicant.

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