If you have top high school stats and 4.0 gpa from college and good LORs from college professors, it’s not that hard.
HYP mostly admit CC students and veterans as juniors, but you can get in UPenn, Columbia, Brown, and Cornell after your freshman year.
My son went to a state college ranked lower than UConn and got accepted into UPenn and Duke as a second year next fall. It’s definitely doable.