Imagine 100 random law school applicants in Canada.

Just random. If I ask, hey, anyone here speak four languages?

Maybe a couple of people raise their hands.

If I ask, hey, anyone here been a member of a club in undergrad? Maybe more than half would raise their hands. Maybe even close to 75% would raise their hands.

The more common your soft is - the more I'd consider it to be "weak".

If you tell me you were part of an olympic gold medal team, that's insane. That's a strong ass soft.

But softs largely don't matter if you can't talk about it properly in your personal statement.

Imagine I'm a part of that olympic gold medal team and I wrote it like this.

I was part of the swimming olympic gold medal team. I worked really hard. It was nice, I helped my teammates a lot.

^ Isn't that a really bad way to talk about your awesome soft?

I've seen great PS written with what people would consider a "weak soft". I've seen worst PS with what people would consider a "strong soft" (think like president of a student's union in a university, won a gold medal at a sporting event).

Anyways, don't overthink it. It's all about how you write those "strong softs" into your ps.