<p>recognized internationally, than nationally? I have met a lot of international students that recognize Penn as a top notch Ivy behind HYP. But it seems like a lot of Americans confuse it with Penn State. I have even met a surprisingly large amount of laymen who think that Penn State IS Penn, as in the Ivy League school in Philly. Yet, in my meetings with internationals this hasn't happened a lot. Ofcourse, most internationals think Wharton, but overall they know Penn really well. My guess is the lack of attention to College football, a knowledge of the Ivy League and an attraction to major urban towns like Philly. </p>
<p>Maybe it's just me but I really think that Penn is on the rise internationally.</p>
<p>Some of the kids at Penn joke when people get them confused with PSU, but retorting, "I am at the other Penn State". I am not sure it is the people who exactly matter who make the mistake.</p>
<p>Ha, my friends over at penn always talk about this. I have no constructive point to make to the discussion on the perception of penn internationally. Oh well, I think they have a "Not Penn State" t-shirt, so I guess they are trying to fix the confusion.</p>
<p>I don't think comparing Internationals to Americans on Penn's name recognition is a fair comparison. International students at Penn are a generally very wealthy group, with educated parents and coming from the best high schools in their country. Just like wealthy or well-educated people from the US, of course they will know Penn.</p>
<p>Now, let's compare someone in the 50thincome percentile in the US to someone in the 50th in Mexico, and then see who knows Penn better.</p>
<p>Penn is very active in recruiting international students, much more so than other Ivy League institutions, at least in my experience. This is probably the reason for foreign recognition. Additionally, Penn seems to crop up as the source of cutting edge research, particularly in biomedical fields, which adds to the international prestige.</p>
<p>Penn is known as the place for international students. It's the Ivy for the professionally oriented international who wants to make it in the private sector (primarily business). This is also the reason why it receives scorn from the New England types that prefer schools like Dartmouth, Yale, Brown and Harvard. Although, Harvard to me, seems like its moved away from the Yale and Princeton route. It is very open to internationals too like Penn. I was surprised to see that it wasn't a very secluded campus with a specific type of person there. A bit more urban that what I expected. It actually reminded me a bit of Penn. </p>
<p>Yale and Princeton (and to some extent Dartmouth) are the last of the old school traditional Ivy League.</p>
<p>Here in India, Penn's reputation is stellar. It's actually more popular than Princeton.</p>
<p>The Penn admissions officer for India just stopped in Bangalore for dinner the other day, and told us she was taken aback by the overwhelming Penn enthusiasm she has encountered here.</p>
<p>Penn's pragmatism is an asset to the myriads of aspiring engineers, doctors, businessmen, etc here.</p>
<p>Of course Penn is big in India. All over Asia and the mid East, Penn is pretty popular. It's a professionally oriented school. But its for this reason that the HYP crowd dislikes Penn.</p>