<p>With numerous schools now requiring pre-screens this year, does anyone know if it is necessary to officially apply to each school first or if that can be done after an audition is offered? I imagine that, like everything else in this process, each school has their own way of doing things. I´ve tried to research this on some college sites, but have not found any info about this specifically. With so many of their audition pages not being updated to the 2014-2015 year it´s hard to tell who is even going to require one this year. I really want to get all of my ducks in a row as early as possible but it is so difficult with the lack of info available! Anyone else having any luck figuring this out?</p>
<p>Yes, every school is different. Point Park had earliest app opening that we dealt with (June/July), and I believe you had to get university admission before you could register for audition - perhaps this will be the same if they ask for prescreens. IU and UM we’re somewhat simultaneous, etc. All different. Basically, if the website will “let you” do something, the go ahead and do it. Generally, if you haven’t done the required previous steps, then you won’t have what is necessary to do the next step - student ID#, correct web link, etc. Most schools send emails when it’s time to go ahead with the next step, but some, like CMU, gave almost no responses to let you know what to do next. I suspect that for MOST, applying to the university will be the first step, or at least simultaneous.</p>
<p>This year Otterbein said not to apply until after the pre-screen results, which I thought was very thoughtful and not greedy 
I believe you may be able to send the pre-screen to Coastal Carolina prior to applying. Coastal’s pre-screen was optional this year, but I recommend sending one in because the student will have a 20 min. audition instead of a shorter time slot. Of course, everything I write now may be different for this year, so always check for updates on the school website.</p>
<p>I know Ithaca required you to apply for college before you could submit prescreen</p>
<p>It seems most due, Otterbein was the only one we didn’t have to pay an application fee before the prescreen.</p>
<p>Elon is up for the prescreen but the college application is not live yet. We submitted the prescreen via Acceptd and will send in the college app. when it is released. It seems that most of the applications go live in August. I think you can send in the IU prescreen now without the application, but they won’t give you a date until the college application is in. I wish they would all just agree on one thing so we didn’t have to tape 6 or 8 different combinations. Like a common app for musical theatre. One can dream . . .</p>
<p>For the ones I have looked at (maybe 10 schools) the application must be started but not completed in order to submit a prescreen and /or schedule the audition. </p>
<p>Texas State’s prescreen could be sent in before the school’s application was even started.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for all of the helpful responses! Wow @Divamamacita you are way ahead of the game! I’m just trying to set up a date to film my D’s pre screens in August. It’s going to be a feat to schedule and film all the different renditions in an efficient manner! I think it’s ridiculous for these schools to require applications for a pre screen, knowing full well that the MT kids that don’t get offered an audition will not apply. Greedy of them!</p>
<p>@MTRaleighmom : i agree! i wish all schools could use the same prescreen. To help us get organized, we set up a spreadsheet which showed each school and what had to be on their pre-screen (16 bars, 32 bars, dance combo, 1 min monologue, etc…). Remember to also look to see if they are specific about how it should be slated and/or what order things should be in. This helped us make sure we captured everything on film that was needed for each school on our list.</p>
<p>Just FYI: We hired a high school student who was heading off to film school to film everything on the spreadsheet. Once filmed, he took everything home and edited clips together for each school and sent us both a digital file and DVDs for each school. He charged $100 to do this using his own equipment. I am not great with a camera so this took all the stress out of getting these filmed correctly in a spendable file for not too much $. Just a thought for anyone like me who was leery of filming prescreens themselves.</p>
<p>@vvnstar - Second the idea of hiring someone to film and edit…ESPECIALLY if you can get a student (which makes things way less expensive) I spend approx same amount as you did, and it got rid of LOTS of stress. We had learned the hard way, D had filmed a number of things for precollege programs the year before…and it had been a hot mess of tension!</p>
<p>I am REALLY not tech savvy…it was all I could do to get an audition video shot for a summer program (I’m still shocked she got in with it…thankfully her talent mush have shown through the bad lighting and backdrop! I already had my D enlist the help of one of the best techies from her theatre program that will be money seriously well spent! Nothing stresses me out more than tech issues! Thanks for the tips! I will definitely expand my spreadsheets to include one specifically for pre-screens! </p>
<p>What is required of schools is really not that diverse among the schools. If you film each piece individually (16 bar ballad 16 bar uptempo, 1 minute tap, 1 minute jazz, etc. You will see that sending them off via accept’d or which ever method the school requires is pretty easy. We had our prescreens mostly completed before school started in the fall which was a huge help. We also had every application that could be completed before school started completed and submitted. We got every date we wanted for live auditions; I think starting early really helped.</p>
<p>@Raam1012, it looks to me that we need both 16 and 32 bar for ballad and uptempo. Did you just go with 16 bars only figuring that auditioners don’t care if your piece is less than the requested amount? We are planning to film all 4 with different songs.</p>
<p>Oh no sorry - we most definitely did 32 bar of each - thus the etc. We always did exactly what the school requested and some allow you to add extra dance if you want so we had those on hand. Some want a combo of jazz and ballet so we just used some edits and put the individual pieces together. Nothing special - I promise and every prescreen was passed - I think there were 9 or 10!</p>
<p>oh oops - we only had 6 prescreens - but passed them all!</p>
<p>We have 4 to film and they are all a little different. I am also going the DIY route and am using a DSLR camera with Movie Maker so I can edit and mix as necessary. D has been posting videos on youtube for a while now and that practice has been invaluable.</p>
<p>Correction again - there were 7! Not that it matters but point is, none were rejections - those came later </p>
<p>Son followed the directions. I remember two of the three pre-screens wanted 60 second monologues, but one wanted a 90 second monologue…son just spoke more slowly for that one </p>
<p>OK, opinion on number of bars… if the phrasing of the music is awkward at 32 but works at 33/34 (or 28?), how tight will they be about hitting the exact number of requested bars?</p>