stlouismom,
I'm much happier. I transferred and am now in the second year of my second program. I guess that makes me a dropoout statistic at my first school although it had little to do with the intensity or quality of the program. It was a more a personal thing. But yeah ... Gotta go with the gut. You can dissect all these programs til the cows come in, but intellectual analysis falls short. I think a lot of h/s seniors don't really know what they want in a program outside just some basic ballpark ideas ... and even those can change. They sure did for me.
/actor,
You don't register for the Unifieds as such. You schedule your auditions through the schools like NotMomaRose said. Here's a link to the
Unifieds Site. Also, there are a lot more schools that audition on the same days in the same cities than those that are an official part of the Unifieds. The thing to do is look at the available audition dates and locations for the schools you are interested in and see if they correspond. You can save a lot of travel money that way. There is also the possibility of doing unscheduled walk-in auditions for some schools.