@“Yalie 2011” - there are schools where stats matter: NYU, Michigan, Penn State and Syracuse are examples - you have to pass academic muster there. BUT -stats matter most as a “threshold”… they only take students who qualify, and then the audition counts for just as much. I do not think that those programs, or others, would accept higher stats and lower talent - that’s not the way BFAs work. It’s more like the stats become a hurdle in ADDITION to the talent, rather than the other way around