EF6 count query of table vs view - entity-framework

Question

I'm finding that EF6 is generating different SQL when I need to get a count from a table vs a view.
Let's assume I have a table in SQL Server called Students. Assume there's a view that filters that table; we'll call it CurrentStudents.
When I use EF6 to get the count of the table, the query that EF creates is quite different from what it generates when I query the view count. I'm trying to understand why it does it differently.
I have example code below.
Looking at the table count code, we have:
context.Students.Where(x => x.Status == 1).Count()
That generates the EF query:
SELECT [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
FROM (SELECT
COUNT(1) AS [A1]
FROM [STUDENTS] AS [Extent1]
WHERE 1 = [Extent1].STATUS)
AS [GroupBy1]
EF generates the Count SQL and wraps it in another SELECT. No problem with that.
Now contrast to just changing the code to get the view count:
context.CurrentStudents.Where(x => x.Status == 1).Count()
Generated view query:
SELECT [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
FROM (SELECT
COUNT(1) AS [A1]
FROM (SELECT [STUDENTS].[ID] as [ID],
[STUDENTS].[STATUS] AS [STATUS],
[STUDENTS].[FIRSTNAME] AS [FIRSTNAME],
[STUDENTS].[LASTNAME] AS [LASTNAME],
[STUDENTS].[AGE] AS [AGE],
[STUDENTS].[MAJOR] AS [MAJOR],
[STUDENTS].[MINOR] AS [MINOR],
[STUDENTS].[DORM] AS [DORM],
[STUDENTS].[GRADDATE] AS [GRADDATE]
FROM [CURRENTSTUDENTS] AS [CURRENTSTUDENTS])
) AS [Extent1]
WHERE 1 = [Extent1].STATUS)
AS [GroupBy1]
The EF query in this case has added another nested SELECT, which is selecting every column that is available in the view. I'm not sure why EF has decided to add that extra level of verbosity just because a view is the count source. Just wondering if anyone has a better understanding of what's going on behind the scenes here.