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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anybody else seeing HYPS legacy kids with top stats applying (SC)EA to comparable schools where they aren't legacies precisely because they want the sense that they got in on their own merit?  Seen it a couple times now and results are consistent with Harvard's claim (for example) that their YP legacy admission rates/standards are about the same as their H legacy admission rates/standards.  [/quote]

If that is the sole reason a child would choose one school over another, it seems sort of tragic.  Don't they have anyone in their lives telling them that they should not be deriving their self worth from Ivy acceptances or rejections?  Such hubris too--if they get in, then they'll feel that they deserved their acceptances more than a child with a legacy (or other hook)?  Are worried that the brag value will be diminished by the possibility of a legacy rejoinder?   I'd be sort of embarrassed for the kid and family, unless the kid had a poor relationship with the legacy parent(s) and decided not to apply early to the school out of spite.  That would unfortunate, but very understandable in my view.[/quote]

It's often a reaction to the school community and being fed up with hearing from classmates that of course they'll get into coveted school because, as a legacy, they have a huge advantage.  Or having watched other parents dismiss an upperclassman's admission to a great school by asserting that it must be because the family has a connection to the school/pulled strings, they don't want to think that the same comments will be made about them.  So when it's time to make the EA decision, unless they're in love with the legacy school for another reason, they actively look for alternatives and submit an (SC)EA app to a peer institution where they don't have the unfair advantage.   If they get in, they still have the option of RD applications to the legacy schools.  Or, by that point, they've become invested in (and may clearly prefer) the non-legacy alternative.  I don't think this is an optimal aproach to college selection, but I understand where it comes from and the results are hardly tragic when it means that a kid goes to Yale instead of Harvard or MIT instead of Stanford.
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