I agree with cpofthehouse, mom4bwayboy, and pghmusician. The time for the school to decide if the kid had potential was at the ORIGINAL audition when they decided to admit them into the school. Once the student is enrolled, it’s up to the school to train them to the best of their ability. As long as they are putting in the work and getting good grades, they absolutely should NOT have to worry about being cut loose. If it ultimately turns out they don’t have what it takes to make it after they graduate, then they’ll find that out when they graduate. It’s NOT up to the school to boot them.
If you read the Arizona folder, you see that a) some students were cut loose with NO warning, after getting As in all classes and reassurance from their teachers, and b) some students who were cut loose by Arizona then auditioned for super-competitive schools like CMU and were ACCEPTED as transfer students. So clearly Arizona is not the all-knowing oracle of who will be successful - no one can possibly know that.
Now, having said that, IF the school feels that the student won’t be successful professionally, I see nothing wrong with TALKING to the student frankly about it and explaining in what way the student falls short (in the school’s opinion), and perhaps SUGGESTING a switch to the BA program or to another major. That type of “counseling” is acceptable to me. But if the kid is doing the work and getting good grades and wants to stay, then the school should be committed to keeping that student and WORKING with them on the supposed “shortfalls”.
If the school feels that it “made a mistake” in admitting someone who may not be competitive post-graduation, then it’s the SCHOOL’S mistake, and they need to just suck it up and do the best they can with what they were given.
JMO, obviously.