College Admissions Essay: Finding My Identity For Myself

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Growing up I played many sports, but when I got to high school there were around two hundred other kids just like me. In my freshman year alone there were two hundred kids on the football team, seventy-five trying out for the baseball team, and around sixty kids trying out for the basketball team. With so many kids doing the same thing as I was, I struggled to find my own identity and my own personality. During my freshman year, I was the second-string outside linebacker on the freshman football team and was never given the chance to stand out on the field. After my freshman year, I decided to take another route. Without sports in my life, I was forced to try to find a new identity for myself. I joined many clubs like Student Council and DECCA, but I wound up having the same problem as I did in football. …show more content…

It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I discovered that I had a talent that could get me my own identity. The sport of hunting gave me an almost unique identity in a school with over three thousand students most of whom have never been to the outdoors. Hunting also gave me an out from the normal day hustle and bustle of life. Through hunting I was able to find my voice and be able to express my interests and talents in a way that differed from my

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