Are my extracurriculars good enough? Or should I try to find something else?

In my opinion, you should choose extracurriculars because you enjoy them, not thinking about college admissions. You are working hard in school, and your extracurriculars should be a release from pressure. Do them because they are fun!

It sounds like you are engaged in some wonderful activities that you like.

If you do things you enjoy, you will have experiences along the way and develop skills that you may not even realize are important until you sit down to work on your application in the August before your senior year. You will be an interesting candidate to admissions officers because you are genuinely interested in those activities and can tell a meaningful story about them.

Do not worry now about what “learning” will occur or what “story” you will tell. You do not know yet. You cannot know yet. That is something cool about life; you do not always know what is significant until you look back on it.

If you want reassurance that this approach works:

My son was admitted early decision to his top choice, an extremely selective college (Williams). My son’s essay was about a small moment during his camp job which he did not realize at the time would be the stuff of a college essay; he made that connection while brainstorming in response to the Common App prompts. He did activities he enjoyed, but he did not invent a cure for a disease, compete nationally in a sport, perform at Carnegie Hall, do an internship, do service in a foreign country, become president of a club, win a national competition, have all his activities relate to one another or to his major, or whatever else sometimes some people on College Confidential seem to think you need to do extracurricularly in order to get into a top college. He did what interested him. In the end, he was able to write little blurbs about his activities in the Common App (and speak of them in interviews at other colleges), in a way that enhanced his application.

Enjoy high school. You get to experience it only once!