But what people don’t consider is that being a legacy makes you more likely to apply to that school as well. For example, if you are an IVY caliber student choosing between Columbia, Brown and Penn and your parent went to one of those three, then you are more likely to want to go to the one your parent went to out of familiarity. We know a girl who turned down Stanford to go to Brown because she wanted to play her sport at the school her parents went to. Its not all about using legacy to game the system. Sometimes its about schools getting a student out of family tradition.