lingstudent

...or is there? I've often heard that the concept of safety schools doesn't exist when it comes to grad school applications. I agree that the graduate school application process is quite different from the undergraduate application process and that finding the right program means finding the school of "best fit" more than anything else... but, just for fun, where did you apply as a fallback? I've been lurking the threads for a while, and you all seem like really smart people, but I'm not as confident about myself. I'm looking towards sending in my applications this fall and since I'm a very cautious person I'd really love to hear some of your "safety schools". I'm interested in hearing about both MA and PhD programs in theoretical (not applied) linguistics TIA!!