@artskids YAY on having it all done and loaded. And, unless the school specifically states that you must use the same rep as prescreen- I think you can use your updated rep.
Thanks @kategrizz. Made for an “interesting” holiday weekend. S helping her with her final dance cut and prepping his own recital stuff. OH boy…
I have been reading cc threads for several years and my D’s Senior year is finally here. She is applying for Acting at some schools and MT or both at others. She has heard yes from Syracuse (both), Michigan (Acting) and CMU (Acting) and no from CMU (MT) and DePaul. She also has auditions scheduled with TCU, UNCSA, Emerson, Oklahoma, Webster, and Point Park. Still waiting to hear from Ithaca, Penn State, FSU and Michigan (MT). Last of the prescreens were submitted 11/18. I saw that some people have heard from Ithaca. Can you share how quickly you heard and if Ithaca is using email for good news and snail mail for bad news?
Break legs to your D, @dramamama2022 ! It seems that Ithaca prescreen yeses are arriving via GetAccepted, and nos are arriving via snail mail. There is a huge variance in how long the responses took. My D submitted 9/28, and received a no about a week ago (it was postmarked 11/15.)
Thanks, @owensfolks ! We’ve been out of town and I’m afraid the “no thanks” letter from Ithaca may be waiting when we get home.
I submitted to Shenandoah on 11/08 and Syracuse 11/11. Shenandoah has until Tuesday to respond to me (they said at most 3 weeks) and it has been 2 weeks for Syracuse? Is this normal? Has anyone heard from Shenandoah?
My D got an email tonight that she passed the Ithaca prescreen! I’m impressed that someone there was working on a Sunday! @dontaskme1, my D heard good news from Syracuse on 11/16, a little over 2 weeks after she submitted. Keep in mind that the holiday may delay their response, too.
@dontaskme1 Hope you hear from Shenandoah soon! We submitted in October and heard back in 9 days.
We are finally almost done with pre-screens. We need to record the dance portion tonight and finalize uploads. I’m wondering if anyone has information on NYU Tisch. I’m honestly having a hard time figuring out their audition program. I thought it was pre-screen so we’ve been working on getting everything uploaded for that, but I went back to look at the site again today. After looking at it again, I’m wondering if we should have been just scheduling a live session at Unifieds. Does anyone have experience - is Slideroom their pre-screen followed by an invitation to audition (or a no) or is the video submission just an option rather than the live audition?
NYU Tisch does not have a prescreen. You schedule an artistic review. You only need to upload your resume, headshot and a quick survey to slideroom.
Ugh! Thank you @DramaMan We could have scheduled AGES ago if we hadn’t been confused by the site. Wish I had asked earlier.
@speezagmom - the NYU website (Albert) is legendarily confusing… you probably aren’t the only one 
Just about to submit pre-screens to CMU only to realize we missed the fine print that they want a head-and-shoulder as well as a full body video. Are we the only ones? Looks like we are re-filming them tomorrow at midnight to get them in in time. UGH!
@collegemom2000 - we caught that one but missed the need for a classical monologue. Thought we were done filming… we’re not…! 
Even with some expert help and advice we end up feeling idiotic every week for things we “didn’t know”, “didn’t notice” or in retrospect “didn’t do correctly”. I know no one here is a professional at college apps but - do we feel like amateurs!!! Yes we do!
I found, too, that in a few situations, the school website was not necessarily consistent with Acceptd so we had to film over multiple sessions to make sure we had all the slate requirements correct. Actually, I’m not sure we got the slate requirements correct but at this point, we are done!
I just don’t see how anyone can get it all straight. We are out of time and she isn’t willing to refilm another copy so I guess we either bite the bullet and send it in as is or bag it.
Wing it! D called two of the schools where we found the information confusing or conflicting. They walked my D through what needed to go up.
Best advice I got on prescreens is to not overthink it. As long as you make a good faith effort to meet the requirements, you should be fine. They are trying to look at the person’s talent not the production value.
I know for one school in particular that we did not send in the “slate” exactly as requested. My S still passed.
One thing I just heard that concerns me is that the schools want all materials submitted before they review the pre-screens. Does this sound right? Some of our schools have not received all of the information, either because it was lost, teachers are dragging feet on recommendations, and I waited to send SAT for some.
@collegemom2000, different schools have different requirements on reviewing prescreens (isn’t that always the answer? lol). When I made D’s spreadsheet I tried to note whether or not they needed everything & even doing that it was difficult to keep up with. Some will review and some won’t. Wish I had a better answer!