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Old 09-10-2004, 06:16 PM
CountMacula CountMacula is offline
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Originally Posted by jim
and why would they make more money by failing people? that makes no sense whatsoever. on average, half the people who fail leave. so for everyone they make an extra 10 grand on, they lose 90 grand for the one who left. your math sucks.
Alimentary, my dear Watson.

They want to increase the step1 pass rate which means reducing the percent of people who make it to semester 5. But they want to keep up the 5th semester enrollment. So they increase semester 1 enrollment. and medprep too.

With the larger sample size starting, more people fail out (thanks for your money). But despite the lower percent who succeed, enough of them do to fill up the 5th semester spots and these will have higher step1 pass rates.

Q.E.D.
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