Hi! I just submitted my app, and I was wondering if some of you could give me an opinion on if I have a chance or not at USC. Thank you! 
Stats:
GPA: 3.95, unweighted (never had anything less than an A-)
ACT-
Highest Composite: 30
Highest Section Scores-
English: 31
Math: 28
Reading: 32
Science: 31
Class Rank: 32/280
Demographics:
-No family members from USC
-First Generation College Student
-Income: ~25,000
-Race: White
-Gender: Female
-State: Minnesota, Small Community
-Major Choice: 1st Choice Computer Science, 2nd Choice Computer Science (Games)
Classes:
Took four years of every core class (except language, I only have 3.75 credits there), and have more than that of in science and math in terms of credits because I have doubled in those. I live in a small town, so we have limited AP classes, instead having a focus on dual enrollment classes because most people will stay in-state and these will transfer well for them. Freshman-Sophomore year I took all possible AP and honors classes (only had them in math and science though), and I’ve had all dual-enrollment with a couple honors and AP classes mixed in since then. I don’t know how they view dual-enrollment, but they were the toughest classes we had available.
Awards:
-Honor Roll - all years
-Dean’s List - 11th Grade
-USA NBC Characters Unite Award (first youth winner of this award) - 9th grade
Letters of Rec:
Couldn’t read any, but I had one from my counselor, 10th Grade AP Bio teacher and 10th grade English teacher. They all have good views on me, my counselor has told me before she’s never had a student like me before, and all said it was an honor I chose them to write one. I also heard my science teacher writes awesome letters from what one of my friends last year told me. Quality for all probably ranges from 7/10 to 10/10, if I were to take a guess.
ECs:
-Founded my own charity: At the age of ten, I founded my own charity, and have run it ever since. I’ve run many service projects on a national scale, such as socks for hospitals, pinwheels for patients in children therapy departments, and Halloween Costumes for the RMH for kids who can’t leave the hospital to trick-or-treat.
-Cheerleading: I was on the varsity cheer team freshman and sophomore year of high school. I was the team’s head captain, -Band: I play in our school’s highest band, Wind Ensemble, and have won a letter award for my time in both concert and pep band. My position in band is first chair flute and piccolo player.
-Volunteer at our local hospital: Every Sunday for 3 years, I volunteered four hours every Sunday at our local hospital. I worked at the information desk aiding patients and their families.
-Student Theater Project: Each summer, I performed in our local student theater project, putting in at least twenty hours per week.
-National Honors Society: My school’s chapter of NHS leads public service projects, and each member must participate in these while maintaining a high academic standing.
-Cross-Age Tutoring: For a year, I worked with students at a local elementary school to help improve their understanding of English and mathematics.
-Local Charity Telethon: I’ve helped a local organization with the packaging of toys and food for families during the holidays, and have co-hosted the charity’s telethon.
-Math League: I joined the math team my Sophomore year to gain more knowledge on the subject and to improve my math skills for my future career.
Essays-
Common App Essay: Probably my best essay. I wrote on what led me to founding my charity, how it began, what I have accomplished, what I’ve learnt from it (most emotional part, definitely pulls on the heartstrings), and my future plans for charity work. At the end, I’m honest about the fact that I probably won’t continue my charity (would be impossible due to space and time), but after I get to college, I want to use my charity experience to help young girls in STEM and teach them code in after-school programs. I wrote about my plans to do this.
Other Academic Focus: I chose creative writing, but gave insight on how I’m able to connect writing and my field of choice, CS. Shows a bit of my perspective on how I view things.
Pursuing academic interests at USC: Probably my weakest essay, but I still feel good about it because my writing skills aren’t too shabby. I wrote on how USC would be the best place for me because it promotes diverse interests, and what I would learn with this flexibility. I also wrote about the diversity in Viterbi and USC Girls in Tech, and how both of these would help me achieve my goals of bringing more young girls into computer science.
What I expect to get out of engineering: I wrote about what things I would like to research in the future, each centering around the idea of making change in our world (promise it doesn’t sound that cheesy in the actual essay 
) I also touched lightly on helping girls in STEM again (another example of making change, just in a different way).
NAE: I wrote on securing cyberspace. I had nothing personal to write about here, so I tried my best to showcase my writing skills and how I present my ideas.
TL;DR on the essays: Had a common theme of my charity work, wrote a lot about my plans in STEM and how I plan to help close the gender gap in computer science through my charity experience by teaching young girls code. Quality was pretty strong.
Wow this is so long and I am so sorry, but thanks if you made it all the way through! I’m so desperate for hope here, but please be brutally honest!