Leaving Certificate student Rebecca Carter, who has had her results upgraded, has said she is "over the moon".
The 19-year-old Wexford native took a High Court action against the State Examinations Commission (SEC) because, in spite of getting the necessary points for her preferred course in an exam re-check, the SEC said it would be mid-October before a full appeal could be completed.
That would have meant she would have missed the chance to study veterinary medicine this year.
But the change means she now has enough points to do the course in University College Dublin (UCD).
Her bother, Shane Carter, tweeted the news earlier:
Rebecca Carter's appeal has been processed by the State Examination Commision -> The grade has been officially upgraded from a H2 to a H1 and her points from 554 to 566, CAO offer to follow this afternoon @Orlaodo @LauraHoganTV pic.twitter.com/7nXQSzVdfO
— Shane Carter (@Shane_Carter_) September 28, 2018
Speaking after the upgrade, Ms Carter said: "I literally just received a phone call from the State Exams Commission, and he's confirmed that my business paper was re-corrected and that the grade was upgraded to a H1.
"I'm sitting by a computer here, refreshing the CAO's website, because that's what I'll actually receive the offer on - so once that comes through I'll obviously be pressing 'Accept' on that.
"And then hopefully I'll be hearing from UCD quite shortly after that".
"I'm absolutely delighted today - now I can finally celebrate cause it's set in stone, that's it: my grade has been upgraded.
"Nothing was set in stone until I got the call from the State Exams Commission - so I'm over the moon, really.
"Nothing's going to stop me now".
Rebecca Carter outside the High Court in Dublin on September 26th, 2018 | Image: Nicole Gernon
On the High Court ruling and potential reform of the system, she said: "I'm so happy that other students won't have to hopefully go through what I went through - and what other students in the past have gone through - and (that) nobody will be left without a place in college, even though they've deserved it when they've received the sufficient amount of points".
On Wednesday, the High Court ruled in favour of Ms Carter - and was highly critical of the slowness of the commission appeals process.
The High Court gave the SEC, whose board met on Friday morning, until today to finalise Ms Carter's appeal and issue a decision.
The judge also said that any appeal system which does not notify a student of the outcome until a month and a half later is manifestly unfit for purpose.
He noted that the ordeal had caused untold stress to Ms Carter and recommended that, in future, appeals should be completed by the start of the academic year.
With reporting from Nicole Gernon and Jack Quann
