That!
I see lots of chance-me’s with a long list of school clubs and “leadership” in those clubs. While I do appreciate (and seen with my daughter) that for some clubs, being involved in managing it does involve a certain personality and of course extra (sometime extraordinary) commitment, it is too common a sight in applications to stand out.
Fewer clubs, but instead one solid, persistent, outside-of-school commitment, could be more distinctive.
She had been fun-volunteering for a local non-profit since being child, and her involvement grew/changed with age to be increasingly relevant to that organization. Not only was she awarded a (very modest, unexpected) scholarship - but most importantly, she received a very good letter of recommendation from that organization’s president, and from a second, public-safety organization, to submit with her applications.