You forget how much of an impact the student themselves have in their success.
Want that B? Put in the hours and manage your time wisely. It is difficult because of the quantity of material.
Want that A? It may take exponential effort increase compared to the B.
Statement above does not take into account so many other variables such as:
- Some classes are harder for different people.
- An extremely bright individual may excel in one class and completely fail another
- Students with already high stats coming in may perform better regardless of program/location/services offered
- Backgrounds of each student coming in are relatively different. A student who performs extremely well academically may have difficulty during clinicals.
- The opposite of that can also occur. You can't expect to get to clinicals if you don't pass your courses and try to do well in them.
I have literally outlined what I saw from every school I interviewed at regarding faculty, interview process, students, campus, location in the last cycle.
If you perused through them more carefully you may find the information you are looking for. Every program offers tutoring and support counseling. Every program tries to get their students to pass boards. Some do it differently than others and some carry different attitudes regarding how much their student is responsible.
You should also consider PMing students at the different programs on SDN, contacting those schools directly through email and asking them to put you into contact with current students, and talking to DPMs who have graduate from programs you are interested after you have narrowed what matters to you in a program instead of making a thread and bumping it after 20 minutes.
Some threads you may be interested in looking through again carefully:
aacpmas 2016/2017 cycle
AACPMAS 2015-2016 Cycle
Pre-Podiatry Ask Me Anything (AMA) threads
Podiatry Interview Feedback List | Student Doctor Network
APMLE Part 1 2017 (c/o 2019)
Class of 2020
Class of 2021