Beginning community college in January. Ineligible to transfer to Ivies after 2.5 years?

I think you are banking on a plan that has a very very very low chance of success.

Why are you starting a community college? Cost? Couldn’t get in anywhere else?
Why are you trying to go from the lowest end of colleges to the uppermost?
Why not apply to a university somewhere in the middle?
Or use the agreements community colleges have with their state Universities?

Look at https://educationusa.state.gov/ to get more info on the US college system.