<p>Sigh…so today my friend and I were with a group of parents for an event for school…and my friend says, I’m going to <em>insert top 30 school</em>!! All the adults were like, “Wow, that is a great school”, etc, etc, as it rightfully is. Then, I say “University of Pennsylvania”…silence. “Oh. that’s a <em>straining</em> good school.” It was announced in the same tone as if I was going to study mechanics at PepBoys.</p>
<p>when i say im going to pen state evryone is like 'OH, WOW UPENN IVY LEAUGE" nay just playing, i feel you guys the same happens to my older brother</p>
<p>Anon_Person I’ve had that happen except in the context of Penn vs PSU. </p>
<p>The conversation usually starts with the person (usually adult/parent) asking where I go to school and I say Penn and then they get excited and say “congrats on Penn State, good job etc etc” and then I correct them by saying University of Pennsylvania in Philly and then they say “oh, I see, thats nice” in a much less enthusiastic tone.</p>
<p>At that point I just feel bad for those people, seeing as how I live an hour outside Philly and not knowing the difference is inexcusable.</p>
<p>haha i love this argument. My older brother just graduated from Upenn, and I go to the honors college at penn state, so i’ve been dealing with this for a couple of years now.</p>
<p>I couldn’t count the number of times people got our schools confused (we are two years apart). It’s great when I wear my “Upenn t shirt” on campus at PSU, and when my brother wore a Penn State shirt around his campus.</p>
<p>I don’t let it bother me because i see it from both sides. It’s pretty funny if you think about it</p>
<p>lol. It’s nice to look at it with humor, especially since it’s something so insignificant that people get so worked up about. I think it would be hilarious if people just started wearing Penn State shirts at Penn because that’s a nice way of poking fun at the people who still manage to get the schools confused. Thanks for posting.</p>