<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

so I don't know if this is best here or not, if not just let me know.

so a bit of back story, due to my mum being in hospital for a long time, I had to leave school before I got my A-Levels, which meant that I was feeling pretty down.

 I've always been a self-taught developer and love IT, and i got recruited into a paid apprenticeship about a year after leaving school. i worked hard in the apprenticeship and all my free time went into either Programming, or developing games, and after two years i have worked on some massive project with my company and feel pretty confident that I can stand with the other qualified developers. here's the issue, I don't want to be a business intelligence developer, I am grateful they offered me the opportunity but its just not my passion, my passion is animation, 3D design, interactive IT development, and I've become good at it.

so I am applying for a university for courses in animations and  computer generated imagery, but everyone I have spoke to has said I either need to have 'academic qualifications' or I need to be 21 for all of my current knowledge to apply to me, I mean I have exhibited games I've created at the UK's largest gaming festival twice. I don't have the academic qualifications, but I meet the 'applied previous experience skills', I've made games I've animated, and the thing holding me back is that I'm not 21.
<bot>: have enough 'skills' to go into a university course, gotta be 21 for 'skills' to count, no A-Levels :(