Almost 57,000 applicants have received an offer of a college place from the CAO.
Some applicants will have received two offers - for courses at different qualification levels.
A total of 83,369 offers have been issued by the CAO. Almost 52,000 for Level 8 courses, and just over 31,400 for courses at Level 7/6.
At Level 8, points have risen for just over 40% of courses. However in the majority of cases the increase is small, less than 5%.
Points have fallen for almost half of all Level 8 courses.
Offers have been sent to individual applicants by email and in some cases by text this afternoon.
Of those receiving an offer, 56% at Level 8 will have secured a place on their preferred course. More than four out of five have been offered one of their top three courses.
At Level 7/6, more than nine out of ten have been offered their top choice course.
Level 6 courses are for higher certificates and are usually two years in duration.
Level 7 includes ordinary degrees, previously known as diplomas, which are usually three years in duration.
Level 8 are honours degrees, which are completed primarily at universities, and are generally four years in duration, sometimes longer.
Applicants can check to see if they have received an offer by logging in to their CAO account.
CAO Head of Communications Eileen Keleghan said applicants should carefully consider any offers they have received.
"One of the common queries that we receive at the offers stage is around order of preference.
"Applicants who receive a lower preference offer can accept this offer, and it will not prevent them from receiving an offer of a course higher up on their courses list in a later round should a place become available and they are deemed eligible.
"Those who have received an offer in this round should also consider the current offer carefully as it may be the only one they will receive," she said.
Catríona Rodgers, President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, advised students who did not get the course they wanted to call the National Students and Parents Leaving Certificate helpline.
The helpline is a free, confidential service offered by guidance counsellors who are members of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors.
If students get two offers in the form of their Level 8 choice and Level 7/6, she recommended they consider what modules are on the course, if it is right for them, and practical matters like accommodation and the potential commute.
"Sometimes students think they need to respond immediately, and they don't, they do have a little bit of time."
Applicants have until next Tuesday, 3 September, to accept an offer.
Speaking on RTÉ's Drivetime, she said students can always change their minds.
"You just would let them know that you are no longer going to take up that place."
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Separate emails and texts have issued in respect of Level 8 and Level 7/6 offers. It is possible that applicants may receive two offers at the same time: one from the Level 8 list and one from the Level 7/6 list. Applicants must choose between these lists and can only accept one offer per offer round.
If an applicant has not received an offer they will receive a 'Statement of Application' email.
Round Two offers will be available to view on the CAO website from 2pm on 9 September.
Random selection was applied in the allocation of places on 27 Level 8 courses this year. This is similar to last year and considerably lower than previous years.
This method is applied when some applicants present with the same points score but there are not enough places for all of them. Courses where random selection was applied include courses in high points areas such as Pharmacy, Medicine and Physiotherapy.
Points have risen for a number of nursing courses. UCD's main course is up seven points, General Nursing at UCC is up by 16, at UL by seven points and at DCU by 22 points. Trinity’s main general nursing course saw points fall slightly, by eight.
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In Education, primary teaching courses have seen small points drops, at St Patrick's DCU, down by seven, and at Mary Immaculate College, down by nine points.
Additional places have been created this year on some health sciences courses as part of ongoing efforts to address chronic staffing shortages across the healthcare system.
They include a total of 55 additional places on Bachelor of Science Speech and Language, Occupational Therapy, and Podiatric Medicine courses at the University of Galway.
An additional 20 places have also been created at University of Limerick’s Occupational Therapy Bsc programme.
The Department of Further and Higher Education said that 40 extra places are also coming on stream on medicine courses as part of an expansion plan that began in 2022.
A total of 5,370 applicants already received an offer from the CAO in an earlier restricted round, known as round zero.
For those applicants who do not receive any offer today there is still hope. The CAO will make a number of further rounds of offers in the coming weeks as places are turned down and become available again.
