| Sure, it's unfair. But you have to suck it up. There are a lot of unfair things that happen to arts students when they compete. Many times in art competitions, there are a number of people that deserve first place, but it comes down to subjectivity. Of all the ways to lose, subjectivity is probably the worst.
If you're truly passionate about a sport, you would love it so much that you would enjoy devoting your time to it which in turn would bring you up to varsity level play. Passion means you devote a large amount of time to an activity - it's impossible to devote a lot of time to practicing soccer and not get any better. Let's face the facts, someone not participating in a varsity sport will not have as much ability as a varsity player (unless the non-varsity player were participating just for the exercise or weren't serious about it).
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but giving you the answers that you probably want to hear wouldn't be doing you any favors.
GOODCOLLEGES - yes, if the school elected you to the position, and you were the student representing the HS student body, that is definitely something to put in the app. Clearly, your entire HS or at least the admin think very highly of you. It's not a 'hook,' but definitely something of importance. |