Straightforward instructions. Again, make sure you don’t use your students email and use a password that you know you’ll remember for your college stuff, because you’ll be going back to these websites time and time again. 

Click on the thing at the top of the home page that says “Search organizations,” type in the name of your college, and click on it to add it to your home page!

To get to the actual start of the application, click on the home page for the program after you add the school to your home page. For each program, their page will ask you which program of theirs you’re applying to, and sometimes another question or two, as shown in this example. Submitting that will officially register your application in the system! You’ll then unlock the requirements for your prescreens. 

Now this is the typical information and guidelines that schools ask you to send in. There’ll usually be some kind of time requirement, what angles they want the monologues filmed from, and additional materials they want from you, like the optional additional skill/talent that Otterbein’s acting program asked for. Also, keep an eye out if you start your applications early, as requirements could change from the 2022-2023 audition cycle to future years, so be prepared. 

When you’re finally ready to submit your application through Acceptd, the layout of the submission is super easy. They usually ask a few questions that they didn’t ask on the Common App that are often more arts-targetted, you’ll submit the mp4s of your pieces, PDFs of your headshot and resume, and then once you’ve put everything in, there’s a little green button that you click to submit that will appear, and you’ll pay whatever application fee they ask (or use a Fee Waiver if they let you), and finish your application! Congratulations! Now it’s just a waiting game to see if you get a callback.