Should I apply for Medicine or stay with my current path?

So I'm a Y12 (going into Y13) student. For the last year or so, I've been set on doing Natural Sciences at uni, and so have done things to prepare for that. However, in the past few weeks, I have had a strong desire to study medicine instead. Today I did a practice UCAT (as I assumed I was going to do bad and could leave it at that) but I ended up getting 3030 B2, which my friends say is a good score.

Some things that will help -

- I do have work experience (I have been volunteering in an Oncology ward for about 10 months).
- I haven't really got anything else for a personal statement apart from that.
- I haven't revised for the UCAT or BMAT.

Is it worth my applying to medicine or would it be better for me to do Natural Sciences and doing a graduate course if I wanted to apply to medicine?

Thanks!

My advice to you would be to take a gap year (if you’re up for it) to decide whether or not it is medicine that you’d like to apply for or natural sciences. It’ll save you a lot of money in the long run if you end up applying for natural sciences now and then going on to applying graduate entry medicine

You could also buy time and keep your options open by sitting the UCAT this summer. If you got 3000+ without revision then you should be ok.

That way you can think about what you want to do in October. And decide how you feel. Then if meds not for you then apply for naturql science in Jan. And if you get to Jan and Nat science isnt for you then you have a UCAT just in case anything pops up in extra or clearing. And then apply next year after you have resat your UCAT for next year. I appreciate there is a cost to this. But if you dont plan on doing it now then your choices will be taken away from you. And its summer holidays so you you may have a bit of free time.