It doesn’t matter if a college likes you. It matters if they like what you’ve done in high school.
Of course, the reverse is also true. It’s hard for a college to admit a kid they don’t like.
Some students are too focused on one when they should be spending more time on the other. If you do great work but you don’t treat people well, you’re missing just as much as the kid everybody likes, but who also just can’t seem to buckle down and work when he needs to.