Prescreen Rejection Worries
MTDreamer01
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Hi all. I’m in the midst of hearing back from all of my prescreens and I’m panicking a little bit. So far I’ve heard back from 6: 2 have been yes’s, 3 have been no’s, and 1 was a redirect to acting. I worked endlessly on my material and felt extremely confident submitting them, so the results are worrying and I’m starting to worry that I might not get into a program. I was looking at the prescreen results thread and it seems that most everyone is getting mostly passes. Are prescreen rejections as common as everyone says they are? Are they an indicator of success during the audition season? I might be worrying myself for no reason, since I still have 7 prescreens to hear back from, but the results this far are making me very nervous.
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Not that different than overall college admissions at top / elite schools, we have found the PreScreen results to be quite random. D attends a Performing Arts HS and is surrounded by the chatter each day. Who passed what, etc. One day she's demoralized because Pace said NO to her and YES to her peers. The next day she's elated because she was the only one to get a YES from Syracuse.
Her coach and her school director repeatedly tell her it's not simply a talent competition. They are looking for a certain something, to compliment what they already have and to cast their next four years worth of shows (which they have already picked in many cases). So, if you are a traditional belter and they already have five, they don't need a sixth, etc. Not that different than casting in the real world.
Just keep building and growing. It's tough as you know, but keep the faith.
You may also want to add some quality BA MT programs (non audition - like Mulhenberg and others) to the mix. If you're attending Unifeds, do some walk-ins. Good practice if nothing else but many find a hidden gem via that journey.
Best of luck.
She has auditioned at Belmont (accepted), Auburn (accepted), IU (rejected--ouch), OCU (waiting), and Baldwin Wallace (waiting).
Also waiting on Elon, Roosevelt, Otterbein and Penn State.
An interesting thing happened with Illinois Wesleyan-- we got a NO at CAP, and my daughter who has received nothing but yeses with her video submissions, submitted her prescreen video to Illinois Wesleyan that day because she thought she got the no at CAP because she was the 88th kid of 94--and sure enough, we heard back a yes for her video submission a few days later. Who knows--it may be futile in the long run, but my DD refused to take no for an answer.
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