Almost all the students who come here have excellent grades. According to them, if each department has exchange places, there are only a few, and hundreds of people want to fight for it. At that time, it depends on the family background, your relationship at school and your relationship with the counselor.
The exchange students I contacted were either Japanese students or medical students. In addition, they are exchange students (mostly masters and doctors) from the same research project in the Engineering Department. I really haven't heard of artist survival (private universities may have it, probably just like summer camps. They will come back in a month.