Agreed. And the idea that you might contact their grad admission committee and get a clear cut idea about whether extracurriculars are a positive, negative, or

Agreed. And the idea that you might contact their grad admission committee and get a clear cut idea about whether extracurriculars are a positive, negative, or don't care factor seems nutty also. It's a committee, which means its members will all have biases of various kinds to various activities, and it would be impossible to summarize. I'm dubious any committee member would care to characterize it, and if they did, you'd be silly to put much stock in what they said.