Does being EMT Certified beef up a resume?

[bluedevilmike]

<p>RB’s mini-points are right, but his overall point is wrong.</p>

<p>1.) Good EC’s don’t make up for unacceptable numbers. This is true.
2.) Mediocre EC’s won’t harm a kid with stellar numbers. This is semi-true; stellar numbers will probably get in somewhere, although not the top-tier programs. BRM’s point here is valid: fine, maybe a 40 can skimp a little bit, but that only applies to four out of every thousand kids. And a 36, which is an AMAZING score, still can’t afford to skimp.</p>

<p>This doesn’t mean that EC’s don’t matter. It means that you have to have everything in place, EC’s included.</p>

<p>MDApps is actually a tool I like quite a bit, but only for numbers. It doesn’t work at all for EC’s, where plenty of kids just kind of skip over that section.</p>

[todpose]

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Don’t be thickheaded.

…you’re probably a ■■■■■■

LMAO randombetch surely lives up to her nickname…</p>

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RB’s mini-points are right, but his overall point is wrong.

pwned… XD</p>

[Bigredmed]

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i have to strongly disagree here…you shouldn’t think of ANYTHING as a check list item…people say the same things about research for instance but if you just go to a lab because you think you have to then you’ll get nothing out of it and it’ll be a waste of time when you could’ve been doing something else you were actually passionate about.

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<p>I think we’re actually on the same page here, I totally agree that doing things a student is passionate about is infinitely better than doing something because they think they have to…it’s just than when it comes to clinical experience, it HAS to be done…I’d put in the same league of taking the MCAT. I would certainly encourage people to find a clinical experience they’d find interesting, but to think that EMT is better or going to give an advantage is admissions is a stretch.</p>