<p>I call it Penn and get annoyed when people call it UPenn. Am I justified in my annoyance?</p>
<p>yes 10 char</p>
<p>If you say Penn, people think you go to Penn State.</p>
<p>I like Penn better.</p>
<p>It's definitely Penn</p>
<p>It should be Penn...people will get it confused with Penn State anyways O_o</p>
<p>you can say upenn and penn state confusion still ensues</p>
<p>god its so irritating because people dont even acknowledge the accomplishment of getting into penn when you say you got in to penn, thinking it's just penn state or some random state school. oh well, if it was about the glory i guess i would have applied early to yale or stanford</p>
<p>Yeah the other day a girl (hs freshman of course) asked me where i'm going next year. I had a penn shirt on. And I was like Penn. She's like "oh okay" Then after 30sec, she's like, "is it the one in Philly?" I was like "yeahh.." She's like, "OHHH. THAT's AWESOME!" ...ugh</p>
<p>To an extent, I like that Penn does not have an elitist name like Harvard or Princeton. The intellectuals of the world know about Penn and its prestige and those who are unfamiliar with it are usually those who are out of the loop, and having people who do not really know about Penn and all it stands for is incredibly humbling. So we can always have quiet confidence about ourselves.</p>
<p>The name matters where it matters, and that's all that matters.</p>
<p>^ Well said. They should put that on stationery or something...</p>
<p>An admissions officer I know once told me that she rejects most people who have "UPenn" in their essays instead of "Penn" because that demonstrates a severe lack of knowledge about the university and its culture.</p>
<p>In support of lauke's comment, I did use Penn instead of Upenn in my Why Penn essay.</p>
<p>me too, i definitely used penn. i read it somewhere that students call it by that name instead.</p>
<p>it's weird how the website is upenn.edu though and also how facebook has it as UPenn</p>
<p>[An admissions officer I know once told me that she rejects most people who have "UPenn" in their essays instead of "Penn" because that demonstrates a severe lack of knowledge about the university and its culture.]</p>
<p>I'm all for civility on the forums, but are you guys retarded?! I called it UPenn about a dozen times in my essays and I got in; not to mention I didn't know a damned thing about UPenn's 'culture' before I got there. You can call it either one and it doesn't bloody matter to anybody.</p>
<p>Calling it UPenn just shows that you know little or nothing about the school. Whether or not it negatively affects your chances of admission may or may not be related. (You could know everything about the school, and have terrible grades or scores; you could also have decent scores, grades, and essays, but be a borderline candidate, and be rejected because you illustrated ignorance about the school).</p>
<p>yea when everyone at schools asks me where im going i say "wharton" and they look at me confused so i said "it's the business school at penn" and basically everyone says "the state school?" so i just walk away.</p>
<p>@wayward_trojan: I'm sorry, but I am not retarded. It is truth.</p>
<p>man everyone at my school calls it UPenn (facepalm)</p>