<p>Re: your final question, I can tell you that there are two kids joining the freshman class at my son’s college who auditioned as h.s, seniors and weren’t accepted but re-auditioned successfully after a year. One went to a well known BFA program and still felt like the first school was her dream–she’ll be starting over there. The other attended the school in question as a BA theater major and re-auditioned successfully in December for the BFA; he’ll have to do a full four years but already had some of the first year classes in the BA program, so won’t repeat those. In both cases, it wasn’t a problem, and this is a tiny program that does prescreens, so it’s not like they could’ve been overlooked as repeat applicants.</p>