Success for several local students at Trinity Entrance Exhibition
Several students in the region have been awarded special Entrance Exhibition Awards from Trinity College Dublin this year.
The awards go to the student accepted into the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree programme who achieves the highest points among Trinity entrants from their secondary school, above a minimum of 500 CAO points.
Students from the area who were awarded are:
Eve Conway, Athlone Community College
Róisin Gill-Fagan, Moate Community School
Daniel Lough, Coláiste Chiaráin, Athlone
Ananya Nagpal, Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone
Emma Feeley, Mean Scoil Muire Gan Smal, Roscommon
Lokesh Satish, CBS Roscommon
Jack Hayes, Ballymahon Vocational School
Urte Vityte, Convent of Mercy, Ballymahon
Sara McGreal, Ardscoil Mhuire, Ballinasloe
Of the 2020 new entrants to Trinity, 527 students qualified for an award, up from 452 in 2019. The students come from a record 455 different schools, 438 schools on the island of Ireland (up from 403 in 2019) and 17 schools from overseas.
Trinity Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast, said:
"We are delighted to welcome these talented students to Trinity and only wish that they and their families could come to celebrate with us at the University, as they usually do. Since we revised the Entrance Exhibition Awards in 2018 as part of our commitment to boosting diversity we are seeing an ever-growing number of schools represented and, this year, all 32 counties on the island of Ireland. We congratulate each student and wish them well in their studies."
Changes made to the awards scheme in 2018 meant that students who achieve the highest points among Trinity entrants from their secondary school with a minimum of 500 points in the Leaving Certificate (or its equivalent second level final examinations) are eligible for an Entrance Exhibition Award. This includes bonus points for Mathematics.
Previously, any students receiving 560 or more points (excluding bonus points) were awarded Entrance Exhibition Awards which meant that there could be up to 20 students from any one school.
The Entrance Exhibition Awards were awarded to 322 students from Leinster, 75 from Munster, 61 from Ulster, 52 from Connacht and 17 international students from Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Croatia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hungary, Spain, France, Poland, Norway, Austria and Netherlands.
Awardees will each receive a certificate and a €150 book token.