So for my common app essay I want to wrote about my experience playing football as a girl. I could either focus on the first year I played, the transition to hs football(and new coaches), or (when my parents wouldn’t let me play contact on varsity) learning to kick so I could be a player on the team my junior and senior year. I heard from someone that I should try to focus it in to be more specific. Any ideas?? I’m a junior right now but am planning to apply ED for nyu in the fall.
I would mention stuff before high school briefly then focus on high school during the essay.
Be sure not to write about what you did. Write about who you are. In other words, right about the personal quality that defines you, which appears to be determination and/or perseverance. Judging by what you wrote, you could narrow the essay to simply learning how to kick as an example of that quality.
Hope this is helpful.