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<p>Well, she has a safety. She just doesn’t want to go there. It seems to me that she would feel similarly negative about any school that was truly a safety – I assume she’s fixated on prestige since she only applied to mega-reaches. (Maybe I’m wrong about that.) I agree it would be better if she had a safety that was an actual safety (i.e. a school that she would actually be willing to attend), but it’s a little late in the game for that. She’d have to really research a safety, probably visit campus, in order to learn to love it.</p>
<p>Has she even visited UMCP or is it just fixed in her mind as the place where students with B averages go? Is there an honors college she would qualify for?</p>
<p>For schools that aren’t safeties but are at least more like matches than the Ivies and equivalents she’s applied to, I second the suggestion of Smith. She should also try Bryn Mawr. </p>