<p>I am entering my junior year and I have just transfered to Cornell. I've spent all summer trying to get clinical experience/studying for the MCAT. No one will give me the patient contact without patient contact experience. I am assuming that I can take care of this next summer with an internship hooked up through Cornell. I am contemplating taking an EMT course at school this year as a possible summer job next summer. Good experience? Not good experience? Secondly, I have decided to take the MCAT in April not next month. That said, I know that if I don't like my score I will need to wait to apply to med school in order to take the test again. I want to do some overseas volunteering or working with refugees, etc. I am a returning student, I am 23 right now. By the time I graduate Cornell I will be about to turn 25, is taking a year off to volunteer overseas okay at my age? I am very eager to get some feedback so anything anyone could offer would be awesome. Thanks!!</p>
<p>1.) EMT is good, but it's also a lot of time.</p>
<p>2.) 25 is the average entering age for a medical student, so you will not by any means be behind. And a year of volunteer work is almost always worth it.</p>