<p>Can you visit? Why don’t you talk to someone there? I can’t say for sure, but I do know that they carefully read all those annoying essays, so strong essays will help, especially if you have something special in your ECs or interests. That’s definitely a strong SAT.</p>
<p>That is a low GPA for honors but might matter what types of courses you are taking and how grades are figured. For instance, SC has a uniform grading scale for HS and if you are in SC your GPA here would indicate you probably aren’t taking many AP/IB classes since those are weighted up to 5.8 for 100%. But some districts/states don’t give you any bumps for honors/AP or just for AP. It’s worth seeing what your GPA is when recalculated by USC. Not sure how they do it since all the stats seem to give weighted GPAs but reading other posts from OOS students, it looks like they do.</p>