Re: the ballet dancer, I think the confusion has come about because people have got mixed up between the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Ballet School. The Royal Academy of Dance is just an examination board, in the same way that there are examination boards for GCSEs and A-levels. Thousands and thousands of people take RAD exams each year, as this dancer has, but there is no physical school that they could have taken a place at. That's the Royal Ballet School, which is a feeder school for the Royal Ballet, and no way would this individual be offered a place there.