<p>I would not recommend trying to do them all at Unifieds simply because of the staying healthy thing. With swine flu running around, it is a real risk. For all of you auditioning, I can’t urge you enough to get both your seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines… you cannot afford to get the flu, and then have a cough that hangs around for a month. My D got H1N1 one month after she got to UCLA and she is still coughing a month later. If you get sick, it will affect your practice time, your hearing (she got a sinus and ear infection from it) and a host of other problems. </p>
<p>So, I would urge you to be smart and spread your auditions around over the course of many weekends. We had four different weekends (including unifieds) that my D auditioned. The acceptances were spread throughout all four weekends. As it turned out, she was sick during unifieds, so if all of her auditions were then, she would have been toast. (She only was accepted to one of the five schools she auditioned for during unifieds…but was accepted to all the other schools on the other weekends.)</p>
<p>Yes…we know all sorts of kids who have done tons on unified weekend. Purchase asked my D to add them. (It was slow. No one … amazingly… was auditioning for Purchase.) But she decided to stick with her program. It worked out for the best.</p>