Chance me for USC?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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GPA: 3.5 W
SAT: 2130 (660 M 690 CR 780 W)
ECs: Founder and President of my school’s first Feminism Club
Social Action Vice President for a Jewish youth organization (lead programs on social justice for 200 teenagers)
Communications Vice President on temple youth group board
Speech and Debate Team (varsity in both)
Junior State of America (held position of Fundraising Coordinator on the State level)
Volunteer/Community Service: Sunday School teachers assistant and drama teacher
Serve meals at local homeless shelter
Summer program at camp revolving around social justice, raised $10k for AIDS research
Counselor in Training summer program at camp
Awards/Honors: Varsity in Debate
Varsity in Speech
4th Place in Oratorical Interpretation
Honor for Excellence at Piano festival

Major: Political science
Common App Essay: Really good. I talked about my unique story: being raised by my grandparents, their medical conditions, how it affected my grades, my struggle with ADD/Anxiety, and how I overcome these issues by investing myself more in my extracurriculars and taking on more leadership positions.
My answers to the USC-specific supplemental questions were also really strong and well-written.
Rec letters: Great

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It’s so hard to say because my GPA is a 3.7 (kind of on the low end) and i got a 30 on the ACT and I was accepted in January as a Merit Scholarship finalist. It’s not always gonna be based on grades because there were people at the scholarship interviews with me that fell all over the spectrum! Either way they’ll chose you if they know you will thrive at USC and bring something positive to the student body.

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GPA is a bit low, but your extracurriculars look to be fantastic.