What do I need to do to get into an ivy league school?

Ivies don't let in students who don't know how to read.

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Bra total retard myself I'd say your chances at undergrad are no. Try to get into the best school you can for undergrad and do the best you can and then go to the best school you can for masters and you might have a slim chance of going for phd but in my retarded opinion, unless you're a romantic underdog or a legacy, by the time you are good enough for a school like that you'll be good enough to not need it. Like y'know Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard because he literally didn't need it

You have a 0% chance of an Ivy League undergraduate acceptance. Go to the best/most affordable state school you can and get good grades, do research, and build a good rapport with your professors. Think big fish small pond. Getting into and Ivy grad school at this point will be exceedingly difficult, but not impossible. Some accept 4 students a year , you're competing with the crime of the crop of the entire world . Don't go to an unfunded phd , if you're already in debt then you don't want to take on more . Hey I to the best program you can, even a bad one will probably open up opportunities if you really put your nose to the grindstone .
>Source: I go to Harvard

>>18611815
ivy league is for a good boost for your career, if you want to get into academia/research. The actual education is pitiful, if you want a good education go to an eastern european university.

Okay so I applied to MIT, didnt make it. I had a 34 act, perfect scores on sat subject tests, 9th in my class, played piano for 10+ years, lots of side projects building robots and coding to write about in my essays. Everyone thought I would get in. Instead the kid who played volleyball with the 35 act got in. I recently read in a reddit thread about how ivy league schools are looking for specific types of people, entrepenuers, artists, scientists, engineers. So firstly you are going need at least a 33 ACT. Nearly perfect score on subject tests (not so hard). A sport helps. But most importantly if you want to stand a chance you need to write a lot about your business in your essays. You might stand a good chance if you can meet these requirements. Not sure if it looks bad that you were out of school for a year.

>>18611815
Although really, you dont need to go to an ivy league school to get a good stem education. After being rejected from MIT I got into University Illinois of Urbana Champaign for mechanical engineering and they are paying me tons of money to attend. Plus its a top school. All in all, it really doesnt matter what school you go to, so long as its reputable, the education is decent, and the price is right. That said it would be cool as fuck to be attending MIT right now instead of UIUC.