You can't enroll yourself anywhere. Your PARENT must enroll you. Your parent may submit an application anytime.
If there is an opening you might get in. Otherwise you will be wait-listed.
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.