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This is going to come at a bad time with that one guy trolling this thread, but I was looking at the "Fast facts" section of the PNWU website and found some questionable facts (maybe I'm understanding the numbers incorrectly, but I'm not directly accusing PNWU of making up numbers or anything). I'm a bit confused at the overall graduation rates, which report that the vast majority (like upper 90%) of students graduate. However, when I look at enrollment it says that there are only 75 fourth year students. Then when you look at the "Alumni" tab it says that there were 71 graduates in 2015 and 2014, 73 graduates in 2013, and 69 graduates in 2012. Doesn't PNWU admit around 140 students? How can they state their graduate rate is 95-98% when they start with ~140 students but only ~70 graduate? I feel as though I may be reading this wrong.
Also, I thought it was a bit sneaky of them to state that 100% of students matched into GME placements. If you look more closely, you'll see that the 18.3% of the class of 2015 went into a Traditional Rotating Internship. For those who are not familiar, the rotating internship is something you do if you don't match at ALL into a single residency program (kind of like a backup plan). Now, this school is one of my top choices based on location, but if nearly 20% of students aren't able to match into residency, that kind of seems like a red flag.
To add further clarification, I matched into radiology at my #1 location, but due to their reporting structure, my data is recorded as having only matched to a transitional internship.