<p>Is it a pre-screen this year? Because last year a friend of mine traveled across the country thinking she passed the pre-screen and came back saying it was a video upload but not really a pre-screen process. She was not happy.</p>
<p>There was definitely a pre-screen. Then they contact you by email to schedule an audition date and time.</p>
<p>Actor 12, that is really strange because the live auditions were based on scheduled appointments that you were invited to if you passed the video upload/prescreen. Hopefully, she did not just show up for the live audition.</p>
<p>Well, I think Actor12 is right about there being confusion at least on the MT side. Not sure about acting, but there were a lot of complaints about their process last cycle with walk-ins and pre-screens and people coming to campus and then being quickly and publicly dismissed. It was a bit of a mess. They posted some apologies and explanations and so forth and I’m pretty sure they said in one of those that they had never called it a pre-screen. But thinking about it, that was probably just musical theater.</p>
<p>That is strange. My D applied for both musical theater and acting. She received two emails and scheduled the two auditions. I do know some people were rejected academically and I believe they were informed their auditions were cancelled.</p>
<p>No, she had an appointment but was cut in about 5 minutes. She’s going to NYU so it’s all good.</p>
<p>Well fantastic for her that she is going to NYU. But for the record, plenty of kids passed the video upload prescreen, attended the audition and were eliminated upon their 5 min audition and not asked to stay for callbacks. All of the programs that have a same day callback feel awful for those that traveled far for the program. Very discouraging part of this audition process which is why its best to cast a wide net. Also a good reason to try to schedule several auditions in a location and plan the Unified’s carefully.</p>