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Not that I care much, but I'd love you to tell me about how excited you would be going to a school that doesn't have some sort of check stop to ensure that their class is prepared for boards. From the moment you set foot on campus, EVERYTHING you are told is to prepare you for boards. Hell.... technically, every test you take is an assessment of your preparedness. You're telling me your school doesn't have a minimum passing GPA? Do they not offer course remediation? Do they let students with say... sub 2.0 GPAs sit for the test? It's not a matter of 'skewing pass rates'. It's a safety catch for ALL students to set requirements before they move to the next level. Do you have any idea how much weight a failure carries in your career? Honestly we're all fortunate (read: any school that ensures their students are ready to take the COMLEX) to have filters to catch students before they do damage to their careers. I applaud your schools pass rate, and I'm not ripping on your school in ANYWAY, but I do request you show a little respect to other schools. That said... I think you should be afforded the same respect and i applaud your desire to stand up for your school
If only what you said was true, then no problem, but it just isn't. Schools and students try to manipulate their board scores for no other reason than marketing, to atttact better students. They want to fill their classes and have better students that won't flunk out. One of their marketing ploys is the Level I boards, and right now it's apples and oranges the way schools play with these figures. Yea, "School or Schools X"brags about their board pass rate, but they don't mention that they hold people back until they know that they can pass them. It's the schools and they way they want to manipulate statistics.
The data that is really meaningful is the 1) first time taker pass rate; and 2) the time certain in which students have to take the boards and the amount of study time afforded them. (Eventually everyone has a 100% pass rate, either thru retakes or attrition, but that NOT first time takers). If all things were equal, that would be fine. There not.
Look, I don't want to burst your bubble. If you think that schools are doing that for the sake of the students, keep believeing that. But then, lets be honest about comparing pass rates on the Boards, and put in all the facts!