Difficulty of transferring from community college into Virginia Commonwealth University

I’m a freshman at Northern Virginia Community College. VCU throws out high school performance and SAT scores for those who’ve earned at least 30 college credits.

So long as I maintain my A letter-grade average, what else should I work on improving before I reach that 30 credits and apply to VCU? Throughout high school and into this first year of college I’ve interned at several companies and have a good body of published works as a result. Would that help?