text: Being in an extracurricular activity can help you get into really good schools. If you want to get into a good school you should try some activities like being in the student council. Principles know this because they were once in you position and they know how it feels to try to make friends or learn knew skills. You could help out in school based activities like a football game or you could usher for a school play. Schools are looking for that kind of stuff. Principles know how it feel with all that pressure with school work and good grades, but they want you to do better than that. Being in an extracurricular activity might help you not only to rely on you school work to get into a good school but sice there are extracurricular activities, those can help you get into a better school too.