<p>^ Exactly. My admissions officer said he doesn’t want an essay that just touts your main extracurricular accomplishment over and over again. The place to talk about your best/favorite extracurricular is in the short answer box (right after the place where you list your activities) on the common app, not in the common app essay. It doesn’t make you look well-rounded, and it makes it seem like that one activity is the focus of your life. Even if it is, you don’t want to make it look that way! : P Instead, like Gurung said, try to weave together a story that includes important life experiences, lessons you’ve learned, and some of your main interests, preferably academic, and how you’ve tied them to extracurricular experiences. That’s what they want to see, and getting that point across to them is crucial.</p>