<p>Neither of my kids auditioned on campus for the BFA programs. My son auditioned for NYU in Atlanta (a regional audition as he did not do Unifieds for straight theatre). My daughter auditioned for BFA MT and BFA Acting at the NY Unifieds. She was accepted into Northern Illinois University’s BFA Acting- which has a great program.</p>
<p>We did several on campus, some at Unifieds, and a few regionals and there was no auditioning before the entire faculty anywhere. Three people at most and that was at Unifieds. One auditor happened a few times both on campus and in hotel rooms…which was slightly weird.</p>
<p>If she’s a dancer on campus may offer some advantage, otherwise I really don’t think so.</p>
<p>@jeffandann: I have noticed at least one school that strongly recommended that applicants audition on-campus, so it is probably wise to do some investigation for each school and see if they have a preference. Unless a school specifically states that auditioning on campus is stongly recommended and unless it is a top choice, it seems to make sense to audition at Unifieds if time/money/distance are an issue. Kids from my d’s school routinely receive acceptances from Unifieds, for some, Unifieds constitute the bulk of the auditions that they do. It is a long way from Texas to the East Coast and many of the kids do not have a lot of money, so few kids from d’s high school do on-campus auditions in places in like New York and Boston.</p>
<p>Since d’s high school is a PA school, college auditions are fully supported by the staff, who obviously have lot of expertise in this area. They recommend auditioning at Unifieds without hesitation.</p>
<p>Looking at my daughter’s list, there are 6 of the 8 that require on campus auditions I believe. Great input from folks here, looks like where there’s a will there’s a way!</p>
<p>Jeffandann:</p>
<p>If memory serves me correctly, we drove to Penn State, SUNY Purchase – VP, Julliard – VP, Hart, Ithaca, Syracuse, SUNY Buffalo, NYU, Emerson on different days, flew to Michigan, at Unifieds in NYC we went to Boco, CCM, CMU, Miami, </p>
<p>We live on Long Island so we were able to group a few together or set up an overnight for the next day.</p>
<p>I am not sure where everyone lives but if I lived somewhere else I would plan on attending two unifieds and drive a couple of hundred miles in each direction. At a quick glance there are over 25 schools that participate at National Unified Audtions.</p>
<p>Oh, I plan on my car having a ton of miles put on it this coming year! Unifieds do seem to be a good way and from what has been posted shouldn’t alter ones chances. We are so fortunate to have a coach who’s been through this to advise my daughter and her parents on how to manage it all…</p>
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<p>Elon and FSU will be long, long drives from your home and I don’t think either participate in Unifieds. Although Oklahoma is part of Unifieds, if the DVD prescreen is approved, she will audition on campus and that is really a haul from your neighborhood! If driving to these locales, you will likely need to plan on an extra day of missed school. We did fly to all those locales but unfortunately, the flights are not inexpensive.</p>
<p>I think we’re in this together. We are trying to narrow down D’s list this summer, and I think we’ve decided she’ll attend unifieds both in NYC and Chicago. I live in Alaska, but D attends school at Interlochen, MI. Flying to meet w/her for on-campus auditions at so many schools, none w/i driving distance for me, just won’t work for us. So hard to coordinate flights when we’re coming from two different locations. The tentative plan is for both of us to fly from our separate states and meet up in NYC for Unifieds for those 2 days of auditions, and while I return home, she will then fly from there to Chicago, meeting up w/other students from her school @ Chicago Unifieds, and will take a bus back with them to school from there. Hoping to catch about 10-14 schools between those two locations, and also sending in one recorded DVD audition to a school that allows that option. With careful planning, she can still audition for both MT and a few VP programs, if she so desires. We will wait for any acceptances to plan campus visits in the spring prior to making a final decision. That may require a flight to Chicago and a road trip from there during spring break or in April. I think this plan is our most practical option for covering up to 15 schools. Pre-screens may eliminate a couple of her options prior to auditions…</p>
<p>From what I’ve read above, it sounds like students need to audition separately at the same schools for MT and VP. If the student wants to audition for MT and Acting, is it usually the same audition?</p>
<p>For Acting and Musical Theatre whether it is one audition for both or two separate auditions will vary by school. </p>
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<p>^^Yes, what Kat said. Some schools, the acting and MT audition is all in one such as NYU/Tisch, Ithaca, Syracuse, CMU and at some it is separate such as UMichigan.</p>
<p>Jeffandanne and Atlast, It sounds like you are going about it the right way with early planning for numerous auditions. And I do not believe your students are auditioning for too many schools. My daughter went through the process 2 years ago, 1 year after the start of the Glee effect, and there were already almost 2,000 students auditioning at Chicago Unifieds. BTW, at that time 49 different schools were represented at Chicago Unifieds, although some were just for acting, not MT. I have mentioned in other threads that I would be happy to send the represented school list to anyone who would like to PM or email me their email address, along with other forms we used throughout the process. We are from Oregon, so my d auditioned both on campus and at Unifieds in Chicago. She auditioned for 14 schools and was accepted into the MT program of 4 of them. 2 offered her valuable scholarships, one-nothing at all, and one was a backup. So we were very glad we had that high number going in. My daughter missed 10 days of school during the process. Most schools were auditioned for during the February period. My one regret was that we hadn’t planned for a fall audition at 1 or 2 schools closer by that she wasn’t very interested in, just to get the audition piece under her belt. Even with all her coaching and mock auditions, her first audition on the east coast really threw her!</p>
<p>One more thing - you might want to get in a couple of visits to college campuses before next spring, as many of the acceptances may come through quite late, and this year the domino effect of the waitlist acceptances was crazy! With lots of kids auditioning for lots of schools, as soon as someone decides, the lists go through crazy fallout. I know of a couple of students personally who thought they had made a final choice, had put money down, and then were accepted into one of their top choice schools in June and had to quickly fly out to meet with staff and evaluate programs.</p>
<p>I’m one of the people who have already asked you via PM for some info, so thank you! I’m wondering if you know of any list of MT schools that were auditioning nearby (not as part of) Unifieds in the past couple years, @ both NYC and Chicago locations. I know of SOME of these schools, but it’s taking a while to individually check each one’s website to research this. And YES, we do hope for a chance to visit a few of these schools in the fall. D’s school theatre dept. has a tour planned this fall and will be doing a musical in NYC over a weekend in mid-November, so no time for catching some of those fall auditions that are taking place that weekend, but we will stay a few days longer in NYC to at least visit several schools in that area. I agree it would be nice to do at least one fall audition!</p>
<p>To the original poster: Why don’t you add SUNY Buffalo to your list if you are including Naz? I think you might want to consider it as well as adding Syracuse to your list. I am not sure where you live but Nazareth may be more of a safety school to you even though you will have to audition. Good luck!</p>