<p>Your parents sound just like my parents. They really wanted me to apply for Yale EA. I told them that I would get rejected by Yale because I just wasn’t a good fit. I applied for UChicago and MIT EA instead. They kept on annoying me everyday, claiming that Chicago sucks, that I was too wimpy to apply to Yale, and that MIT had absolutely no statistical advantage for applying early. I showed them that plenty of lists rank Chicago higher than Yale, but they did not believe it. They said that I was just using Chicago as a safety. I knew that I was a better fit for MIT and Chicago; they would provide me better opportunities for stuff I want to do. Then I got deferred by Chicago because they didn’t receive part of my application for some reason. 
My parents said that I’ll probably end up at a community college and become a beggar. Next day, I got accepted to MIT. Now they don’t even want me to apply to Yale because it is inferior to MIT. Now they leave Chicago alone and start to claim how MIT is way better than HYP. 
Moral of the story: Don’t listen to your parents when you know what you are doing.</p>