I'm not a student but I'll share the anecdotal info. I have. I have a number of health care industry clients in the SE, and I occasionally hear things about the med schools at LSU, Tulane, and WCU. On my most recent trip to New Orleans, I heard that the top student in one of WCU's classes was from Colorado and another Colorado student got a COMLEX score there that anyone would envy. What that tells me is that medical school performance is very individualized. The problem with the poliferation of DO schools, is that many (at least initially) admit students who really do not have the background or intellectual capacity to be med students. WCU has been around a few years and I think they now have some traction due to the fact that they have graduated a number of classes. Some of the newest DO schools are real wild cards because there is no empirical data to look at in regard to student performance. (i.e., UIW, NYIT-AR, BCOM, ARCOM).
For a number of reasons, LUCOM is an unique story all to itself. For their 2018 class, I just heard that 16 students (or 12% of their class) failed the COMLEX, and for the ones that passed, the average was only 507. In part, this of course is due to the quality of the students admitted. However, someone in that LUCOM class also scored a 719 on the COMLEX. That is why I'll repeat the refrain that med school performance is very individualized.