Extracurricular activities are significant to your college education because they help you apply what you learn in the classroom: the abstract theories and the philosophies that you learn to a real world example. When students are a student government officer, like a treasurer or a leader of a club, they learn some very important lessons about political science, about accounting, and about how to communicate with people.
Those are all things that you read about in class, but they’re not necessarily things that you get a chance to practice. The other thing that’s actually significant about being involved in extracurricular activities is that after you graduate, you’ve gained a lot of practical experience on the job, or at least experienced with other people the practice of interacting, creating programs and budgets, and promoting your ideas. It’s important to think that there are a lot of people who mark off from college every year. Many of them will have majored in the same thing you did.
They will have achieved the same grades that you did. What do you do to make yourself stand out? It’s the extracurricular participation that you have that will be that value added on your recommence that will really make you stand out.
