Why do people look down upon Nova?

[luv4eyz]

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What happened at NOVA? Why do people think it's not the greatest school? I heard that the board passing rate is 89%! That's great!

 

[Spearmint1]

yeah, but is it consistently 89% or more? From some of the postings, it seems that it's only recently that it had reached that level.

 

[cunikki]

The board pass rate at both PCO and NOVA jumped about 20 points last year due to the introduction of a review course called kmk review (www.kmkedu.com) that was offered last year. i heard that it was mandatory for all students and that is a major cause of the spike. this year the course is being offered in 6 sites i believe...
anyways the pass rate for the current boards really has nothing to do with anyone getting in now because you will be taking a totally different version of the boards because of the change... no one can really say how any school is going to do on this new part but i would assume that more clinically based schools will do better because its supposed to emphasize clinically based questions over rote memorization