I agree with @happy1 . You are 12 or so. It’s great that you are interested in college, but you should calm down and stop trying to figure out how to get into Ivy League schools. You have made twenty threads as a 7th grader.
Here is what I see happening if you don’t relax and stop obsessing. By the time you are a freshman in high school, you are going to freak out if you don’t have A’s in every class. You are going to stress out that you aren’t doing the right things. You are going to fixate on a handful of schools that have under 10% acceptance rates and you are potentially going to start suffering a lot of negative physical and mental side effects because you are going to be fixated on a perhaps unattainable dream. You are possibly going to crash and burn by the end of tenth grade if you aren’t careful.
I hope none of those things happen, but what I see time and again on CC is that kids like you who are totally obsessed with the notion of “dream schools” are the kids who are disappointed on April 1. Don’t become one of those kids. There are so many great colleges. You don’t need to go to HYPSM to become a happy and successful adult.
You will NEVER get your childhood back. You are only young for a very short period of time. Spend your next couple of summers doing dumb stuff that makes you happy. I mean it. Watch TV, swim, read books, go to friend’s houses, play with your dog. Stare at the wall for hours if that’s what you want to do. I promise you right now that plotting and planning to get yourself into a few colleges is not going to make you happy. It’s a great way to be unhappy, in fact.
There is literally no magical formula that is going to get you into a top school. Great grades and tests scores will only get you to the gate. The secret to getting through the gate is something no one here can tell you. The very top colleges have their own criteria as to what they want in an applicant. They want interesting, likeable people. They don’t want automatons who are trying desperately to be someone they think the college will like. Read the MIT admissions essay called “applying sideways.” Then come back to this site in three years. For now, just chill. Have fun being a kid this summer.