I dunno, I think at first my friend who was accepted to Tisch wanted to make her screenplay have some deep symbolism that all tied together in the end. In other words, she was trying way too hard. In the end she just wrote things as they flowed out of her mind; when revising, she didn't add many more "ideas" to the screenplay, just tidied it up to make it as clear as possible.
I don't mean to try to advise you on how to write, it just seems that my friends simple, honest screenplay made a very favorable impression upon the people at Tisch. It certainly didn't contain verbose language or really any deep meaning, it was just a good story, witty, and easy to imagine being acted out in a movie or TV Episode. More.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.