[fullmetal]

250 words is about half a page.  Surely the applicant could just pound out a half-page's worth of words dealing with the prompt, and perhaps he could begin that half-page with the sentence "I have been recruited by <school name> to play baseball on a partial scholarship."

[fullmetal]

250 words is about half a page.  Surely the applicant could just pound out a half-page's worth of words dealing with the prompt, and perhaps he could begin that half-page with the sentence "I have been recruited by <school name> to play baseball on a partial scholarship."