Dear Pitta, Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my message. I am very grateful to you and I wish you every success with your application. As I said, I have been a nurse since I was 21. I am 38 now, but I will be 40 by September 2015, when I am looking at starting a course if I am successful with my application. Over the years, I've contemplated applying for medicine, but something has always held me back. Whether it be confidence, practicality, or quite simply the 'effort' of applying. But now, for some reason, I feel so committed and really motivated to at least see how far I can get with an application, despite all of the potential sacrifices that I would need to make (job, mortgage, home). I really don't know if what I am considering is sensible or indeed possible, but I am getting older, and I don't want to grow any older, wondering 'what if' and having potential regrets. With regard to your question, no I don't have any A Level sciences. I appear to hold the entry requirements for 4 universities, but I really don't know how my application would fair against others. We'll just have to wait and see. I am also concerned about the potential 'intellectual snobbery', but in all of my years of nursing and working with many doctors over the years, it is my opinion that such attitudes aren't shared amongst the majority of medics. Unfortunately, for me, I can't seek any specific funding or fee advice until 2014, due to a provisional start date not being until 2015. I really am unsure where I would stand financially, as I have previously received an NHS bursary for my nurse training, back in the 1990's. I am interested to read that you previously studied Arabic. Would you believe that I have also contemplated studying Arabic at uni, just because I love the middle East, and I have been contemplating a career change for some months now. I really don't think I want to nurse for my entire adult working life. Life is too short!! Where are you from anyhow? I'll look forward to hearing from you. Have you sat your UKCAT exam? How was it? I really don't know if I'd do particularly well at that. But I'd never know unless I try. Please do keep me posted with your application!! Jx