<p>Your list is “high reach” heavy. You need additional match schools. Even USC with a 19% acceptance rate may prove to be a reach for you. Identify 3-4 match schools with acceptance rates in the 30+% rate selectivity to add to your list. NYU is one such college. Other possibilities include Boston University, Northeastern, Lehigh, George Washington University, Tulane. </p>
<p>Further consider replacing 3 of your high reach colleges with reach colleges, possibly Emory, Tufts, Boston College. In practice visiting colleges that are very selective is not particularly productive. Unless you are an extraordinary candidate those college select you rather than you them.</p>
<p>While being top of your class gives you a clear advantage for Texas publics the small size of your class and the location/nature of the school makes it is very hard to gauge what being valedictorian means in a national context. I would guess that very few students from your school go out-of-state to college.</p>