Will football help?

Rainmaker
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:19:57 +0000

Signing up to play football senior year, a sport you don’t even like, will not differentiate yourself from any other applicants. If you had played starting in 9th grade, or even better, in youth leagues then it would differentiate yourself from other applicants. Football is not a “club” that you can just join whenever you want, it takes years and years to get the correct techniques. I’ve played since sixth grade and I can tell the people from my school who are doing it to “get into college,” and to be honest, I would respect them much more if they just quit and did something they’re interested in and are good at.
I’m Asian and I can truthfully say that there is no prejudice/discrimination against Asians in contact sports. If you’re good and work hard, then the coaches will let you play, but if you don’t take time to work hard, then why should the coaches take time to help you? If you wrote about achieving in a sport that is underrepresented by your ethnicity, then that’s a good topic, but writing about the coaches discriminating against you cause of your race is just bogus.