Bad grades in high school going to university but want to transfer?

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<p>I am a current senior in high school living in Orange County.
I want to major in international business with a minor in marketing.</p>

<p>I did average in high school, but VERY poorly my jr and sr year, and therefore wasn't accepted into any university I ACTUALLY wanted to go to that I applied to. </p>

<p>The only schools that accepted me are:
CU Boulder (but it's too expensive)
NAU(they gave me financial aid, enough to where I could afford going to their school) -Northern Arizona university</p>

<p>I really want to have the opportunity of transferring to:
UPENN
USC (University of South Carolina)
NYU
Stanford
(<em>Are there any schools that you know of that are easy to get into?</em> but still considered ivy of sorts?)</p>

<p>(Basically anywhere with a name.. Please don't think I'm a bad person for wanting to graduate from a name school)</p>

<p>Am I better off going to community college for FALL 2014? Then transferring ? </p>

<p>Do I even have a SHOT... Imagine bad bad grades for high school transcripts (CUMULATIVE GPA: 3.5)</p>

<p>1530 on my SAT... (I plan on retaking it actually in hopes of getting a better score)
I never took the ACT </p>

<p>If I do very well in my studies Freshmen year and Sophmore year in college...Do you think I could transfer into any big name school? </p>

<p>If you could give me any advice what would you do, I would greatly appreciate it! </p>

<p>If anyone can explain the transferring process that would be great also!</p>

<p>Thank you for anyone who took the time to read this :)</p>

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<p>Forget about Stanford or any “school easy to get into but Ivy like” (by the way, I’ll let you in on a super-confidential secret - those don’t exist!) with out going to community college (CC). Settle for your current school or go to CC, do excellently (GPA of 4.0), get 2300+ on SAT etc and then you have a chance in some good school. Probably not Stanford or any top or Ivy League school since they won’t completely overlook your high school. If I were you, I would either continue in my current school and go to a great grad school or go to CC and then transfer later. Good luck!</p>