URTAs Questions

[Buzzfish]

Hi eveyone,

I am an international student who is interested in applying for an Acting MFA in Fall 2016.

I've read many of the posts that said that people went for an audition for URTAs, which I haven't heard of before, so I did some researches online and found out that there are lots of school on their member list. So my question is: What is an URTAs audition? Is that a one time thing for all the URTAs schools? When will it be? How does this whole thing work?

Thank you so much for reading, and sorry that if it seems to be a dumb question to ask :/