Fellow CC’rs - My understanding is that BW and CCM have closed their MT audition slots. Any others to add to the list? Thanks and BAL to all of the unique, talented applicants!
Wow, that is amazing. It seems still so early. The numbers this year must be through the roof
I understand Point Park MAY be out of slots at Unifieds. I have not verified with the school but one of D’s friends said she could not book her audition. It is nuts.
WOW, that’s completely crazy!!!
Schools that don’t have prescreens book up fast. I always tell students to consider November 1 their absolute lastest deadline and even that’s not a guarantee.
I actually see one slot open for Point Park at NY Unifieds on Sunday at 10:35 AM and on-campus is closed out for MT on 12/9
Get on those waitlists and check back - they can and do open up due to decisions, weather, and illness.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but - do the schools keep your audition deposit if they don’t have audition slots? My daughter applied to B-W on 10/30, found out 2 days later that all slots were booked but they charged my card the next week for $100. I don’t mind paying applications fees and losing them but it seems like an audition fee shouldn’t be charged when they closed the audition slots before you applied? Thanks for any feedback you can offer! I’m a newbie and know nothing.
You can get a refund, but I would say wait and make sure she really doesn’t audition - my D was #15 on the BW waitlist last year and ended up getting a spot a few days before. PS Audition was $75 there last year.
Oh thank you so much @CentralOHmomof4 ! That’s very helpful - and encouraging. B-W was the first place she applied so hearing that all slots were filled even before Nov 1 was a blow. Wow - that’s a good bit of inflation in one year. 
I really appreciate the reply.
@CaMom13 BWs slots filled in September. D wanted to do a Fall audition. She applied mid-September (15th or 16th) but hadn’t paid the application fee. She logged back in less than 24 hours later to pay and all fall audition slots were gone. The non-prescreen school slots went very, very quickly this year.
I gather, @artskids ! My daughter needed a Winter slot but they were all booked. B-W is the only non-prescreen school on her list and she hasn’t gotten her other apps in yet so I think we’re probably “late” for the prescreen schools, too. The published deadlines seem to be meaningless for MT - or maybe for BFA programs in general? This is my first (and only!) time seeing a kid go through an performing arts school application so it’s all surprising to me. I understand the challenges the schools face with so many applicants and so few slots but - I am still constantly surprised!
@CaMom13. This is my third to go through the process but the process has really changed over 4 years. S (MT) and D1 (Acting) each had 2 prescreen schools. D2 has 8 or 9 (depending on when/if she gets her boot off in time). Neither of my other two kids were closed out of any auditions, nor were they super early to get all of their material submitted. This year feels completely different. I do feel better after D spoke with UMich and Ithaca about prescreen questions. Both schools said they would watch all prescreens submitted by the deadline and assumed spots would be available to those who pass. She may not have the most choice slots but hopefully, there will be slots.
Thanks, that’s very interesting and helpful!
I am shocked that the BW musical theatre spots are already full. They should add more days. Carnegie did that. Seems it would only benefit the program.
When we visited BW this summer, they told us that their audition slots for fall filled before the end of September and the winter/spring auditions filled before Nov 1st in 2016. Given that they knew this, I think it was a conscious choice on their part. I don’t claim to know the motivation for the choice, but given that it was a known from the previous year, I doubt they would add more slots.
Syracuse doesn’t have any more slots available for New York or Chicago Unifieds They do have LA and on campus available. My D scheduled hers yesterday and we will have to travel to Syracuse.
Wondering about Boston Conservatory in Chicago. My S went to schedule an audition and Chicago isn’t on the calendar.