If you want to maximize your chances, focus on your essays. Don’t look at them as individual essays, but rather as pieces of a quilt that together tell a compelling story about you. In my experience with our S and his classmates all had interesting stories that revealed their intellectual vitality, likability, and quirkiness.
One of my sons essays used chess to show how a lust for winning corrupted his love of the game - “winning was everything, I longed for the moment in the game when my opponent knew I had crushed him - the look of despair in his eyes was my trophy -that’s when I knew I had to quit “