PN, thank you for your advice... has certainly cleared a few issues in my mind. It looks like I've just got to go for it and prepare that much better than the other candidates.
airborne_artist, I've gone through the university process and got excepted by several universities, but by the time I've been to OASC I will have missed the boat for my university course... my original plan had been to go to university before joining, but I thought that if I can do what ive always wanted to do now rather than in 3 years, why not.
I'll post somewhere on these forums to let people know of my experiences and how I get on
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Craig