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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds, op, like both your son and you know - or at least strongly believe -  that he will otherwise get into Harvard, Stanford, or Yale[/quote]

OP just said the opposite.[/quote]

Read between the lines. Actually, let me break it down for you.

If op's son is admitted to Harvard, Stanford, and/or Yale, then he would prefer to attend one of those universities over Princeton as a legacy.

However, if op's son is not admitted to Harvard, Stanford, and/or Yale, then he would prefer to attend Princeton as a legacy than any lesser university.

Clearly op and her son do believe that he will be admitted to Harvard, Stanford, and/or Yale, otherwise they would not gamble with a particularly historied legacy of admission to Princeton.  [/quote]

I am the OP.

He is qualified for HYS, but he doesn't have the legacy advantage that he has at Princeton. So at HYS he would be facing more or less the same long odds that all other high-stats, non-prodigy, prep-school kids face. 
As of now he wants to apply to Yale early, Harvard and Stanford RD. He is also thinking of doing Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth RD and the rest will be safeties and matches. I imagine that if he did not get into HYS, he eventually would want to go for Princeton as opposed to a non-HYP ivy. At least I hope. Not attending Princeton is bad enough in our family, attending a lower ivy would drive the in-laws and DH completely insane. Plus the teasing from cousins, uncles etc will be insufferable. I know this sounds ridiculous to most people but this is my family. My side of the family are quite more relaxed about these things. DH's side of the family is a whole different story.

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