Definition of a safety school

safety school    

noun

• a college or university applied to that is sure to accept the applicant, in case the applicant is rejected by all other schools applied to.

  I'm hoping to go to Cal, so Stanford is just my safety school.

  My parents want me to apply to a safety school, but I know that I can do better than that.

  • See more words with the same meaning: school (related to).

  Last edited on Nov 15 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'school (related to)':
frat boy	Definitions include: a person who is in, or has been in, a college fraternity ("frat").
senioritis	Definitions include: burnout or simple laziness experienced during the final year of school before graduation.
pull an all-nighter	Definitions include: See all-nighter.
Stars for Stoners	Definitions include: an introductory (or especially easy) astronomy course at a college.
frat-hole	Definitions include: pejorative term for a male in a fraternity, or a male who acts like a male in a fraternity.
Rocks for Jocks	Definitions include: an introductory geology course at a college.
bookish	Definitions include: studious.
gazinta	Definitions include: "goes in to".
ditch	Definitions include: to leave behind.
stem	Definitions include: a leg.
BYU	Definitions include: acronym for "Back Yard University".
beast out	Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
crib sheet	Definitions include: a hidden piece of paper with information used to cheat on a test.
diploma mill	Definitions include: a college or university where the coursework isn't extensive enough, in the speaker's opinion.
b school	Definitions include: business school.
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Other terms relating to 'safety':
safety	Definitions include: marijuana.
safety meeting	Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs.
safety monkey	Definitions include: a friend kept around to abuse, make fun of, invite places and never show up, etc.
Other terms relating to 'school':
b school	Definitions include: business school.
get schooled	Definitions include: See school.
old-school	Definitions include: old.
school	Definitions include: to strongly defeat during a competitive activity. Etymology: someone that was "schooled" has been "taken to school."
school of hard knocks	Definitions include: the metaphorical "school" of bad experiences.
take the short bus to school	Definitions include: a way of saying the individual wasn't bright.
take to school	Definitions include: to defeat.
too cool for school	Definitions include: with an exaggerated sense of one's coolness.

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