<p>Heading to NYC this weekend for Unifieds and have a bit of free time between auditions. </p>
<p>Any idea what schools will be accepting walk-ins at Unifieds or at other locations in this city this weekend? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>U. of Northern Colorado MT and Acting will be doing walk-ins on Saturday in NYC (Sat. only) and Monday in Chicago (Monday only). A faculty member told me they have available spots, especially in Chicago, and encourages interested CC-ers to come by! This is a great program whose grads have always had a great rep in the city and which really rebuilt after a faculty member caused scandal a few years ago. They hired an amazing new MT voice and acting faculty person out of NYC and get an extremely strong class each year. I saw their showcase last year and was extremely impressed. They will be at Pearl in NYC and the Palmer House in Chicago - not sure of the exact location.</p>
<p>Ball State University will have open slots in NYC as well as L.A. for walk-ins. In Chicago there are no slots left, but it is always beneficial to periodically go check with a school you are interested in auditioning for to see if they have any slots that have become available. </p>
<p>Best of luck at your auditions!</p>
<p>Thanks! Very helpful.</p>
<p>Hello!
Am new here… my d is a junior interested in pursuing MT so am starting to do a lot of research… what are unifieds?? Are these in place of visiting colleges and auditioning there? How do you find out about them?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>[National</a> Unified Auditions](<a href=“http://www.unifiedauditions.com/]National”>http://www.unifiedauditions.com/) </p>
<p>Exactly-- here’s a link and you will find out much more by searching on these boards. Colleges not listed as going to Unifieds often hold auditions the same days in these cities too, so check their websites. And break a leg!</p>
<p>Yes, National Unified Auditions (google it) are a way to audition for a number of different schools all over the course of one or two days all in close proximity, so that you don’t have to travel to each individual campus for auditions. It is very convenient. They are held in NYC, Chicago, L.A. and (with a much smaller number of schools) in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Each school will state on their individual websites when/where they have auditions, including those off campus, either at Unifieds or in other locations. Some schools only go to Chicago or only go to NYC. Many choose not to do off-campus auditions at all. You just have to check with each school individually.</p>
<p>That being said, I cannot recommend strongly enough going to visit as many of the schools as possible before scheduling auditions. (This spring/summer, perhaps?). Not having done that, we found that the auditions at Unifieds all sort of started to run together and D didn’t have a good gauge of which schools she liked from just a 5-15 minute interaction with just one or two faculty members. Had she already been familiar with each school prior to auditioning, I think she would have been better prepared to “audition” the schools at the same time she was being auditioned by them.</p>
<p>Once she receives acceptances from whatever schools, she will go visit the most likely prospects (based on her impressions as well as financial aid packages received) but she won’t have a lot of time to do that, especially if she has more than one or two offers, and may have to make choices being less than fully informed). I wish very much that we had been able to go visit some of these schools last year or even earlier, just because at the very least she would have had some idea whether she could see herself living in that town or on that campus.</p>
<p>We are from CA so it’s not an easy prospect, but if we had started early we could have at least visited a few of them.</p>
<p>While it might be nice to visit many of the schools for which you are auditioning before the audition, it is not necessary. We are also in CA and made the decision, for financial reasons, not to visit any schools until our D was accepted. At that point, we narrowed down the acceptances to those that were first choices and then did a few visits. By doing this, we saved a substantial amount of money and limited our visits. In addition, one school that she was seriously considering offered to fly her there for a fully paid visit. That was a huge bonus! We would not have taken them up on it if she had not been very interested in that program, but it was one of the programs on her final list.</p>
<p>I am not saying that you shouldn’t visit schools before auditions, but that it is a very expensive venture and does not have an effect on the final acceptances.</p>
<p>^^I just wanted to say that this had been our intention after reading of others’ experiences here on CC but we came to regret it. And I recognize that not everyone can afford to visit a lot of schools (that’s why we didn’t, actually!) but if we had planned earlier (like a whole year earlier) we might have been able to fit in several more visits. We are now feeling the crunch because although she has only received 2 acceptances so far, both of which we have been able to see, if she gets more than a couple more, it’s going to be hard to choose which “favorites” to go visit in the very short time we will have. The point is, you really have no way of predicting how many acceptances you will receive and if it’s quite a number, I just would feel as bad about rejecting a school without even seeing it as I would choosing one without seeing it. But that’s just me! YMMV!</p>
<p>Totally agree. We are in CA (auditioning next year) and will not be visiting any schools- just too expensive unless you know you can get in. If you get in 2, you visit only 2. We have gone to as many camps/master classes as we can to meet the people from these schools and try and get to know what the schools have to offer. I think for us it is best to narrow the acceptances and visit to those next March/April. I really find it annoying that some schools require you to attend an on-campus audition. That is great if you can afford it and the acceptance rate is high (no where!) but I think we will probably skip most of those. I think if we have a realistic school list, we can limit the expense in auditioning. That requires taking the leap of maybe not auditioning for enough, but it’s the best I can do- especially when REALISTIC is such a relative term!</p>
<p>We are also in CA, and managed to audition at 13 schools, including 3 walk-ins at Chicago Unifieds this year with VERY careful planning. We also went to two local auditions in SF and applied to one non-audition program. Our plan has always been to wait until we hear back from these schools and then hopefully have a few options that we will visit on spring break. As nice as it would be to see all of these schools in person, it’s just not an option for us to be away from jobs, school, and our other kids!</p>
<p>My D did not audition at any schools that require an on-campus audition (except UCLA which is local for us) as it would have been so expensive. Fortunately there were plenty of schools that she was interested in that attended LA Unifieds so it was not an issue. She was a little disappointed about one school that she had to skip, but overall it was not a big deal. It really is a case by case thing- if finances are not an issue, then go for it and audition on campus. For us, the Unifieds were a life-saver!</p>