<p>I spoke to a woman at the Minnesota/Guthrie program and that program does, indeed, call kids back for a weekend in March before the adjudicators decide which kids to offer admissions to. The very nice woman with whom I chatted told me that the callback weekend is NOT mandatory, but that those who cannot make it must send in a videotape of some kind. The callback weekend gives the adjudicators the opportunity to work with the kids in a more intense way, and it gives kids the chance to see how they like Minnesota in mid-March! (Juilliard does the same thing, for certain. However, I don’t know how they handle the fact that some kids may not be able to make it. Maybe a videotape?) Most of the other schools who do have callbacks have them the same day as the auditions are held.</p>