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<li><p>Sure. If you get accepted at Chicago EA, it’s a safety.</p></li>
<li><p>Sure. If you are the best student at the Lab School, your teachers love you, and your parents are currently in negotiations to name the South Campus dorm after themselves (but haven’t committed yet), then maybe it’s a safety, too.</p></li>
<li><p>If your credentials are so good that Chicago is a safety, then you don’t really care, because you are going to get into most, if not all, of the colleges to which you apply anyway.</p></li>
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