Depending on your experience will be your list number. If you're fresh out of EMT class or have no experience in the 3 years you've had your card you're given a passing grade just for being an EMT. Now if you have experience, your score gets bumped up.... Now!!!! Depending on your list number, is dependent on how long of a wait you have to getting into the academy. All of us in PES 16-03 have waited two years for our time in the academy (Sept 2014 is when we filed) it is a relatively quick process if you can find things to do in between. Just be patient and you'll be in before you know it the way they breezed through 5003 after Transcare