[citation needed] Schull was offered a scholarship to Indiana University Bloomington for ballet, and attended at age 17.

[3] After filming Center Stage,[3] she subsequently joined SFB as a full-time member of its corps de ballet.

[citation needed] Schull was cast in the starring role of Jody Sawyer in the 2000 film Center Stage while still an apprentice with the San Francisco Ballet.

[3][4] In Mao's Last Dancer, released in North America in 2010, Schull has a major role as Elizabeth "Liz" Mackey, the girlfriend (and later, first wife) of Li Cunxin.

Schull recurringly appeared as Meredith, who is Aria's (Lucy Hale's character) dad's former lover, in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars.

In March 2012, she appeared in a McDonald's commercial for the Shamrock Shake and in April she guest starred in an episode of Psych.