<p>I don’t really have a problem with Chicago being called a safety; frankly, my college advisor said that the U of C was practically a safety for me. Safety does not necessarily connote last choice (or it shouldn’t, anyway). The article didn’t just call it a safety, though, but a “fallback.” The term fallback does imply that the school is a last choice–that it falls behind all those other schools you like better.</p>