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safety school
noun
The least-desired among colleges and universities one applies to for admission, chosen as a contingency in case one is rejected from all others.
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Saturday, chants of "Safety school!
Harvard is his safety school.
Avoid all those metaphor-loaded terms, like "safety school".
"Until relatively recently, Bard was a safety school," Fisher said.
If Barclay is the safety school, few will say as much.
Vassar, my safety school of yore, has seen a 40percentt increase in applicants since 1996.
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Plus, I didn't get into any of my safety schools when I applied for colleges.
This makes me doubt the very concept of "dream," "reach" and "safety" schools.
So he applied to some financial safety schools: Greenfield Community College nearby and the flagship University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst.
Their wisdom is proved by the many students who end up loving the "safety schools" where they eventually enroll.
But then I got rejected from every college I applied to — every single one, even my safety schools.
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