<p>Does anyone have a list handy of the schools that require a pre-screening DVD to prompt an invitation to audition?</p>
<p>Penn State
Indiana U
Texas State</p>
<p>U Michigan, I think Shenandoah too.</p>
<p>Is the prescreen for Penn State new for 2012-2013 audition cycle? I don’t see it listed on their website.
[Penn</a> State School of Theatre ADMISSIONS PROCEDURE 2011/2012 | Penn State School Of Theatre](<a href=“http://theatre.psu.edu/admissions/programs]Penn”>http://theatre.psu.edu/admissions/programs)</p>
<p>I’m not aware of Penn State having a prescreen, unless this is some new development for next year? It hasn’t had one up until now.</p>
<p>I pulled this list of schools from another thread. The links may of course change as schools put up their 2012-2013 audition information. But here you go:</p>
<p>East Carolina University
[Musical</a> Theatre Audition](<a href=“http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/theatredance/auditions/Musical-Theatre-Audition.cfm]Musical”>http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/theatredance/auditions/Musical-Theatre-Audition.cfm)</p>
<p>Indiana University
[BFA</a> Application | Department of Theatre & Drama](<a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington)</p>
<p>NYU/Steinhardt
[Music</a> Theatre Applicants - Music Theatre - NYU Steinhardt](<a href=“http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/theatre/auditions#01]Music”>http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/theatre/auditions#01)</p>
<p>Otterbein University
[Otterbein</a> University > Bfa Musical Theatre: Apply](<a href=“Programs of Study in Theatre & Dance - Otterbein University”>Programs of Study in Theatre & Dance - Otterbein University)</p>
<p>Shenandoah Conservatory
[Shenandoah</a> University : Conservatory Special Requirements](<a href=“http://www.su.edu/admission/85850EDB5DB14373BA46A8E5A06DF852.asp]Shenandoah”>http://www.su.edu/admission/85850EDB5DB14373BA46A8E5A06DF852.asp)</p>
<p>Texas State University
[BFA</a> Musical Theatre Auditions : Department of Theatre and Dance : Texas State University](<a href=“http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/Musical-Theatre---auditions.html]BFA”>http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/Musical-Theatre---auditions.html)</p>
<p>University of Cincinnati (voice program)</p>
<p>University of Colorado
[BFA</a> MUSICAL THTR APPLICATION](<a href=“Theatre & Dance | University of Colorado Boulder”>Theatre & Dance | University of Colorado Boulder)</p>
<p>University of Michigan
[UM</a> School of Music, Theatre & Dance - Department of Musical Theatre - Auditions & Interviews](<a href=“http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/mustheatre/auditions.htm]UM”>http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/mustheatre/auditions.htm)</p>
<p>University of Oklahoma
Prescreen DVD or callback from a recruitment event
[Apply</a> - Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre](<a href=“Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre”>Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre)</p>
<p>Here’s the thread I pulled from. This lists both required prescreens and schools that may accept a video audition. But it does have additional background information related to schools that require the prescreen videos:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1186763-dvd-audition.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1186763-dvd-audition.html</a></p>
<p>Penn State is doing an optional prescreen. If you do the prescreen and move on for a call back you do not have to attend the first half of your audition session at unifieds or on campus. If you choose not to do the prescreen you will have to do the full round at your in person audition.</p>
<p>Thank you all!</p>
<p>Beginning next year, Coastal Carolina University will require a pre-screen as well. I believe students who live in South Carolina will be able to audition on campus without the pre-screen. The information hasn’t been updated on the CCU website yet, but I will try and remember to come back and post a link here and update the big list once that happens.</p>
<p>The list of schools requiring pre-screens will jump pretty extremely for the 2012-13 audition season… There’s a new company working with my alma mater that had quite a huge list of schools that will be requiring pre-screens through their company this coming school year.</p>
<p>The number of audition applicants have just become too large for the schools to handle. I have help run auditions at my school for the past 4 years, it has been CRAZY to hear how many of the applicants had never done MT or decided to audition for a few of their high school shows and go on to major in MT on a whim over the summer before their senior year because of GLEE!! The pre- screen seems like a good plan for seeing who is serious about a career in the theatre vs who thought Rachel Berry’s audition looked like fun. This is no comment on their talent but they were going into the entire process blind. I think it’s absolutely beautiful when this yields talented students who become passionate about a career in the field but more often than not that is not the case.</p>
<p>^^ BRbway, do you happen to know if this is the case for straight acting as well as MT (at least, at your school)? I know some schools are prescreening for both, others only for musical theater. Thanks in advance for any info you can share!</p>
<p>Shaun0203: I think we’re going to be “seeing” a lot of each other on the forum over the next year! My D is a rising senior and after looking at CC for the past three years, it’s now her turn to audition this fall!!</p>
<p>So we have a list of schools and pulled dates from last year’s cycle – realizing that things will most probably change for next year, and plugged them into one spreadsheet with dates and locations, along with her commitments for next year. As my D looked at which schools had one or two, which did Unifieds, and how to fit it all together, she said it was like doing a Sudoku puzzle!</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for asking this question, because audition requirements goes on another spreadsheet!</p>
<p>And we’re off!!!</p>
<p>mom2them - We will definitely be seeing each other a lot this year! (Maybe in person, at auditions too). One thing I did on my spreadsheet which I am finding very helpful is to hyperlink the audition info page so all I need to do is click on each school to see if they’ve updated their info.</p>
<p>As soon as anyone hears about Coastal, or any other schools’ new pre-screening policies, please post it here. I will update the Big List of MT Colleges by Program Type once it can be verified.</p>
<p>Mom2them and shaun0203, I am right there with you! My spreadsheet is almost done. I don’t know about you guys, but when I read the Penn State website, it looks like the pre-screen video is mandatory. No?</p>
<p>monkey13 - I just looked - you’re right!! That’s a big change, I think it was optional last year.</p>
<p>East Carolina University
[Musical</a> Theatre Audition](<a href=“http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/theatredance/auditions/Musical-Theatre-Audition.cfm]Musical”>http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/theatredance/auditions/Musical-Theatre-Audition.cfm)</p>
<p>Indiana University
[BFA</a> Application | Department of Theatre & Drama](<a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington)</p>
<p>NYU/Steinhardt
[Music</a> Theatre Applicants - Music Theatre - NYU Steinhardt](<a href=“http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/theatre/auditions#01]Music”>http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/theatre/auditions#01)</p>
<p>Otterbein University
[Otterbein</a> University > Bfa Musical Theatre: Apply](<a href=“Programs of Study in Theatre & Dance - Otterbein University”>Programs of Study in Theatre & Dance - Otterbein University)</p>
<p>Penn State
[Penn</a> State Musical Theatre B.F.A. | Penn State School Of Theatre](<a href=“http://theatre.psu.edu/programs/mt]Penn”>http://theatre.psu.edu/programs/mt)</p>
<p>Shenandoah Conservatory
[Shenandoah</a> University : Conservatory Special Requirements](<a href=“http://www.su.edu/admission/85850EDB5DB14373BA46A8E5A06DF852.asp]Shenandoah”>http://www.su.edu/admission/85850EDB5DB14373BA46A8E5A06DF852.asp)</p>
<p>Texas State University
[BFA</a> Musical Theatre Auditions : Department of Theatre and Dance : Texas State University](<a href=“http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/Musical-Theatre---auditions.html]BFA”>http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/Musical-Theatre---auditions.html)</p>
<p>University of Cincinnati (voice program)</p>
<p>University of Colorado
[BFA</a> MUSICAL THTR APPLICATION](<a href=“Theatre & Dance | University of Colorado Boulder”>Theatre & Dance | University of Colorado Boulder)</p>
<p>University of Michigan
[UM</a> School of Music, Theatre & Dance - Department of Musical Theatre - Auditions & Interviews](<a href=“http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/mustheatre/auditions.htm]UM”>http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/mustheatre/auditions.htm)</p>
<p>University of Oklahoma
Prescreen DVD or callback from a recruitment event
[Apply</a> - Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre](<a href=“Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre”>Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre)</p>
<p>This is the first year Penn State is doing pre-screening. It is mandatory.</p>
<p>soozievt - It IS on Penn State’s website, but not on the graph that summarizes their audition procedures. If you click on the “Schedule Audition/Interview” link, it brings you to the 2012-2013 Admission and Interview Requirements for the MT BFA page where it shows that the video is part of the requirements. I didn’t see it initially either.</p>
<p>FYI, Coastal Carolina updated their website and it’s official they now require a pre-screen upload of two contrasting songs (only - no monologue or dance).</p>
<p>Just looked at the Penn State prescreen video requirements. Please note it includes dance. Many of the other prescreens include dance as well. I hope you new seniors are dancing this summer!</p>
<p>Coastal’s omission of monologues for their MT prescreen was an error, fixed today - MT’s actually do need to do a monologue. They also want to see dance if students are dancers - Ken Martin, who often posts here, said he will change this on the Coastal website. (When dance is added, the total time CAN exceed 3 minutes.)</p>