<p>Well I was meeting with my counselor to discuss college choices, and I called one of the schools I was applying to a "safety", but that's where she went and I could tell she was a little perturbed when she then said kinda harshley, "Well not neccesarily" even though it's an obvious safety. I'm concerned that now she'll make my recommendation bad, what should I do?</p>
<p>Tell her you want to go to school to learn top be a guidance counselor ? :)</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Well, that’s why you shouldn’t say anything that can be construed as bad about a college to someone when you don’t know where they or their family members or friends went (or if you do know, and it’s that college).</p>
<p>It could be worse: she could have been like “Are you considering _______”, and you could have been like “that *<strong><em>hole? No *</em></strong>ing way *****. It’s basically a community college.”</p>
<p>Ripemango, meet karma. Karma, ripemango.</p>
<p>Which college was this?</p>
<p>Funny. But calling it a safety for you is not an insult to anyone who went there. Each of us has our own “fits” and what is a reach for one student may be a safety for another. As a counselor, I can’t imagine she could be insulted.</p>
<p>Obviously, she’s going to sabotage your application to that school to get you rejected, so she can say something along the lines of, “Oh, so can I assume you were admitted to your safety?”*</p>
<p>*sarcasm</p>
<p>the school was UConn (University of Connecticut).</p>
<p>@noimagination, i doubt it.</p>
<p>@BillyMc, but theres no doubt she doesn’t like me as well anymore, so shes not gonna sabotage it but she might not make her letter as strong possibly??</p>
<p>Well, if something like that made her not like you, you obviously didn’t have a strong relationship with her earlier. You’ll likely receive a recommendation of the same quality anyway, it seems.</p>
<p>If you really want to address it, apologize by saying you’re sorry if she took it the wrong way, and that you just meant that you were pretty sure you’d be admitted, not that you don’t want to go, because you’re applying because of X, Y, and Z great reasons. And ask her how she liked it, and why.</p>
<p>wow, my parents both went to UConn, and they were like “Apply if you want as a safety, but you probably don’t want to go there”</p>
<p>If you are using it as a safety, then you are willing to go there-- if all else fails (or if it moves up your list – my s chose his safety over other schools and is quite happy) so obviously you must like it enough to apply…</p>
<p>hahahaha that’s funny because i did the exact same thing yesterday while we had a senior college meeting with my couselor…I was asking about MSU-Mankato and I said, " i heard it’s a bad school im not sure, what do you think?"</p>
<p>counselor: I went to Mankato.</p>
<p>me: … sorry…i just read that off of the internet…my bad im sure i’s a good school.</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>^ Eastafrobeauty, meet karma. Karma, eastafrobeauty.</p>
<p>Lololol @ estafrobeauty</p>
<p>^^ It wasn’t funny the first time.</p>
<p>^ A negative attitude will cause negative karma to develop. You should try complimenting me instead of being critical.</p>
<p>^ why not?</p>
<p>^^ Or you could stop posting.</p>