@palm715, my son is a current NEU student. His application was pretty heavy on that “good ol’ fashioned EC” and not much else with the exception competitive swimming. (And guess what, NEU doesn’t have a varsity male swim team). I wondered about that myself but it was what it was and there was no point in making up a bunch of EC stories. He did have 160 hours in community service because they were required to graduate but honestly, the number of truly meaningful hours I think some of these HS students have (my son included) I question. I think the colleges and universities do too. I’d say no more than half of his he had real conviction about.
Your daughter sounds like an excellent candidate for all 3 of the reasons you listed already plus excellent scores and grades. That old thread sure is an eye opening read however so I get why you are uncertain.