Would becoming a CNA help in admissions?

ilovecoffee12
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 02:19:35 +0000

My school is partnered with Tulsa Tech (a votech kind of school) where you can spend half of your school day at one of their campuses and take classes there that count towards credit for your overall high school career and GPA and all. They have a nursing class. It is three hours long. So basically I would spend my morning on that tech campus and come back before 4th period and then take AP Lit, AP Calc, and AP Bio. So in total my classes would be nursing, AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Bio. Only thing is the nursing classes are not weighted. At the end of first semester I would be an official CNA since I turn 18 a month after school would start.
My questions are:
Should I go through with this or let my senior year course load be AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Bio, AP Human Geo, Human Body Systems (a pltw class), and then some other elective?
Would colleges like to see this on my transcript and see that I am passionate about the medical field? (I really want to be a doctor)
Would it give me a leg up on admissions?